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The industrious blindness of the State Labor Service: how officials cover Strelnikov’s agricultural schemes in the Kharkiv region
The North-Eastern Interregional Department of the State Labor Service has revealed its complete inaction and self-exclusion from performing the functions defined by law. In its response to our information request ❗, the agency explicitly stated that it conducted no planned or unplanned state supervision measures regarding the agricultural enterprises LLC “SKHIDAGRO-M” and LLC “AGROTEKHNIKA SG,” and furthermore “does not possess information” concerning the questions we raised.
Officials formally 🤷♂️ hid behind Article 19 of the Constitution of Ukraine, completely “forgetting” their direct professional duties and control over compliance with labor legislation at companies with multimillion-turnover operations.
There is an explanation for this, since the former head of the Chuhuiv inter-district department of the SBU in Kharkiv region, Oleksii #Стрельніков, while in criminal collusion with the beneficiaries and founders of the mentioned companies — Hennadii #Дерека, Hennadii #Волченко, Roman Khomyakov and Oleksandr Stamatin — created an unlawful structure to establish control over agricultural lands in Chuhuiv and Izium districts. 🔻 By formalizing rights of lease, sublease and emphyteusis for dozens of plots, the schemers accumulated powerful land holdings.
But the most interesting part lies in the financial and staffing anomalies of these firms, which the State Labor Service openly ignores. In 2025 year, LLC “SKHIDAGRO-M”’s revenue exceeded 12,07 million UAH, and assets grew to 7,11 million UAH. At the same time, the entire cycle of cultivating and processing over 192 hectares of land was officially handled by only… ❗5 employees.
That is, more than 💰 2,41 million UAH of revenue fell on each worker. LLC “AGROTEKHNIKA SG,” with assets of over 17,7 million UAH and annual revenue of 8,7 million UAH (with a forecast for 2026 year of over 11 million UAH), officially employed only 9 persons at the company in 2025 year.
📌 It is obvious that cultivating hundreds of hectares, sowing and harvesting campaigns, servicing specialized machinery and marketing the harvest are physically impossible with the efforts of just a few people. This directly indicates the use of undeclared labor, payment of wages “in envelopes,” and tax evasion. Despite these obvious facts, the State Labor Service preferred a “deaf defense,” issuing a boilerplate reply about the absence of inspections.
We will continue to monitor the course of the investigation and demand an appropriate response to every instance of abuse. No former or current law enforcement officer, agricultural baron, or State Labor Service official who covers gray schemes will escape liability. All guilty persons must receive deserved punishment in accordance with the full force of the law.
Materials on the topic:
▫️ Ihor Dehnura – head of the State Labor Service who collects “tribute” from businesses
▫️ A private “feudal republic” in the Kharkiv region: ex-SBU officer Strelnikov, under the “cover” of the Kharkiv Regional State Administration, wrests land
▫️ Scandalous ex-enforcer “Liokha Tryokha” extorts money from farmers and seizes hundreds of hectares
▫️ An ex-SBU official and local schemers stole 1700 hectares of land from Kharkiv communities
▫️ How in the Kharkiv region peasants are being crushed and their land given to “hand-picked” farmers
#відповідь #рейдерство #земля #Харків
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