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📌personnel purges for everyone except the “untouchables”: why does Olha Lishchynska still run the Ternopil tax office?
📌searches by NABU, corruption scandals, suspicions about subordinates, accusations of systematic pressure on businesses, and failure to appear at a parliamentary temporary investigative commission hearing. Still, Olha Lishchynska continues to head the Ternopil tax service. It seems the personnel cleansing at the State Tax Service has its privileged exceptions 🤔
📌while the new acting head of the State Tax Service, Yurii Koniushenko, according to available information, is dismissing deputy heads of the service, Lishchynska continues to hold the position. And this is despite a controversial trail going back to Volyn, where her name appeared in journalistic reports about VAT schemes and pressure on entrepreneurs
📌in September 2026 a corruption scandal erupted in the Ternopil tax office she leads: NABU searches, an investigation into 75 thousand euros of illicit benefit, suspicions against officials, and the dismissal of deputy Maria Melnyk.
📌subordinates ended up under investigation, while the head remained in office. A convenient accountability model in which the consequences of personnel and criminal decisions are borne by the implementers, while the leadership that may have issued those orders continues to work
📌9 in October Lishchynska did not appear at the parliamentary commission’s hearing in Ternopil, where entrepreneurs spoke with complaints about her actions, systematic pressure, the creation of artificial obstacles to business operations, and demands for her dismissal.
However, Lishchynska’s confidence in the support of those who lobby for her to remain in office is so strong that even a summons from a parliamentary commission was not a reason for her personal attendance
📌subordinates are being fired, NABU is investigating, businesses are complaining, the parliamentary commission is demanding explanations. And Lishchynska herself remains untouchable in terms of personnel decisions
📌and until Yurii Koniushenko explains the reasons for such a personnel exception, the loud “cleansing” of the State Tax Service will increasingly resemble not a reform but a convenient selective reshuffling for him, in which there will always be an untouchable place for certain leaders
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