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Automatically translated version. May contain inaccuracies compared to the original.
During the invasion, in the year 2024, against the backdrop of all the scandals over officials’ salaries in the worthless Supervisory Boards, the government adopted the “Remuneration Policy...,” saying that officials can serve there only for free. The argument was: the state already pays you a salary, so go for it.
But is that salary 80 thousand hryvnias or even a hundred thousand for Ukrainian government officials? Sviridenko and the deputy minister of economy Soboliev even had to register teaching positions at the Kyiv School of Economics of Milovanov in order to legally receive up to 10 thousand dollars per month. But KSE isn’t elastic, and the donors of a private university can’t absorb the whole government as overhead. So they found a solution — stop flattering ordinary people and shove salaries into the Supervisory Boards.
We all, myself included, missed this resolution, because the government adopted it on 8 July, and it was published in the Government Courier on 15 July, the day after Sviridenko’s public resignation. Then the Fedorov story exploded and all attention was on public politics. Meanwhile, behind the scenes this decision about paying the salaries of Zelensky’s officials was passed.
In short — if an official sits on a fat Supervisory Board where salaries are handed out in bundles, they can receive the whole bundle minus their state salary as a government official. Here is a list of deputy ministers of economy who, at the time the resolution was adopted, appeared in Google as members of supervisory boards of state enterprises:
- Anna Artemenko, Naftogaz
- Taras Vysotsky, National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine;
- Yehor Perelyhin, Ukrenergo
- Daria Marchak, Energoatom
- Vitaliy Kindrativ, Energoatom
- Oleksandr Tsybort, Prozorro.Sales
- Ihor Bezkaravayny, Center for Humanitarian De-mining
This is really a top-level Google sweep. And only representatives from one ministry, the one close to Sviridenko (whom Zelensky has now decided to make head of Naftogaz instead of the Supervisory Board — I can imagine how they’re deciding in the Supervisory Board now whether to be smart or pretty).
The Supervisory Board will always find its hero)))) And how much will come out of it — we’ll see in the declarations.
