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❗️ I submitted an official appeal to the Head of the Verkhovna Rada Temporary Investigative Commission on Economic Security, Yaroslav Zhelezniak
I support the TIC’s initiative to audit the illegal excise goods market and draw the commission’s attention to a large-scale scheme involving the circle around Member of Parliament Serhii Labaziuk, his brother Petro Labaziuk, and the chair of the Khmelnytskyi Regional Council, Violeta Labaziuk.
At the end of 2025, law enforcement dismantled underground tobacco production in Khmelnytskyi, Kyiv, and Odesa regions (then they seized over 45 tons of tobacco, equipment, cash, and found nearly 70 hectares of unharvested crop valued at more than 25 million UAH).
Despite the high-profile raids and statements, the scheme continues to operate: MP Serhii Labaziuk continues to grow tobacco on 190 hectares of state land belonging to the State Educational Institution “Lisovodskyi Vocational Agricultural Lyceum.”
Over the 2022–2026 years, the private enterprise “Agrarian Company 2004” (owner - Petro Labaziuk), with corrupt assistance from the MP, effectively seized these lands through fictitious “joint cultivation” and “industrial practice” agreements.
To collect illegal tobacco for cash, they recruited not only local residents but also underage students of the agricultural lyceum.
I officially declare my readiness to provide detailed testimony and materials during a TIC session regarding this counterfeit scheme. I ask the commission head, Yaroslav Zhelezniak, to hear me at one of the upcoming meetings.
No one should profit from shadow schemes and the misuse of state resources during the war! And especially not by exploiting minors!
So, we await an appropriate response and for the matter to be put on the TIC’s agenda.
