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Ihor Dehnera — head of the State Labor Service who collects a “tribute” from businesses
Ihor #Дегнера heads the State Service of Ukraine on Labor Issues — the agency responsible for overseeing compliance with labor and occupational safety legislation. Many mandatory procedures, obtaining necessary documents, and the ability to perform high-risk work depend on the State Labor Service’s decisions.
However, instead of transparent state oversight, the service has become the center of a story about 10–20 thousand hryvnias for “unblocking” declarations and up to 100 thousand hryvnias for avoiding inspections. 🤷♂️In other words, businesses first get a problem and then are given a price to solve it.
📌The mechanism works on the simplest thing — an entrepreneur’s dependence on an official. Declarations of the adequacy of material and technical resources are returned with formal comments, registration is delayed, and without the document a company effectively cannot lawfully continue operating.
One example was the refusal to register the declaration of LLC NMTsOP “Bezpeka” due to supposedly “unfilled fields.” When a state body first creates an obstacle and then removes it for money, that is no longer control — it is a “tribute” for the ability to operate.
📌Equally telling is the story about documents for high-risk work. Entrepreneurs are effectively pushed toward certain expert institutions, while turning to independent organizations is accompanied by delays or refusals. In this area a story also emerged about nearly 300 fake occupational safety documents. And if a forged document can be obtained for money, the issue is no longer just corruption — the workers who perform dangerous tasks every day are put at risk.
The financial declaration of Dehnera himself adds a separate emphasis to the story. His salary in #Держпраці for the year amounted to 💰1 572 339 UAH, while he declared 51 thousand dollars in cash, 28 435 UAH and 1 320 euros in bank accounts. The official’s wife received 23 377 UAH from property rent and 12 548 UAH in salary. The mere presence of these assets is not proof of wrongdoing, but for the head of an agency who has significant leverage over entrepreneurs, financial transparency is obviously a concern that cannot be ignored.
And there is one more detail that makes this story particularly telling. ❗️17 June 2020 the Cabinet of Ministers dismissed Ihor Dehnera from the position of head of the State Labor Service, but he later returned to lead the agency.
Today he leads the agency around which questions arise about blocked declarations, possible unofficial payments, high-risk work documents, and pressure on business. The State Labor Service should ensure the enforcement of the law, not create conditions in which an entrepreneur is forced to pay for what is already guaranteed to them by law. Because when state control has its own unofficial price — that is no longer control, but a business model.
Related materials:
▫️The State Labor Service “squeezes” millions: how Dehnera, Semchuk and Rozumnyi built a criminal syndicate of extortion and pressure
▫️Millions of the wife, BMW tales and milking business: what is really happening in the State Labor Service?
▫️Declaration or shutdown: how the State Labor Service’s permit vertical works
▫️Regulator turnkey: how the State Labor Service built a shadow infrastructure
▫️How Dehnera, Semchuk and Rozumnyi turned the State Labor Service into an instrument of extortion from business. Corruption schemes and paid “services” instead of lawful procedures.
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