The tax organized criminal group “Monaco” is losing its key operative inside the tax authority. Starting tomorrow, the...

The tax organized criminal group “Monaco” is losing its key operative inside the tax authority.

Starting tomorrow, the constant and indispensable leader responsible for implementing excise schemes, department head Khrystyna Bozhenko, terminates her contract with the State Tax Service by mutual agreement.

Along with Bozhenko, also by mutual agreement, goes the Monaco operative from the Risk Department.

It appears that after the high-profile failure to collect excise payments for October and the clear understanding of Bozhenko’s controllability by the excise mafia, acting head of the State Tax Service Yurii Koniushenko, together with Finance Minister Marchenko, dared to take this step.

But it wasn’t only the payment failure and Bozhenko’s ties to “Monaco” that prompted this decision.

Sources in law enforcement report that very active operations on excise matters (tobacco and alcohol) will begin soon.

So Koniushenko is hurrying to disentangle Bozhenko from himself and his team.

It’s no coincidence that Prime Minister Koretsky, who is very concerned about public image, holds weekly meetings with security forces and members of parliament on the topic of tax schemes. He plans to force at least some increase in payments by eliminating the schemes.

Therefore many operations are expected at various levels. And not only by the State Bureau of Investigations.

The country’s political situation now requires demonstrative and public actions to dismantle criminal syndicates.

The current Marchenko team at the tax authority wants to shift the corrupt gains and criminal schemes of the State Tax Service entirely onto fugitive Kravchenko and his protégé Lesia Karnaukh.

That is why Koniushenko took these steps.

Interesting weeks lie ahead.