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Personnel purges at Lviv Customs: will the main figures in the scheme to “squeeze” exporters be held accountable?
Lviv Customs is preparing for a large-scale personnel reboot against the backdrop of the start of the first phase of mandatory certification of management.
🔻The head of customs, Ivan #Керезвас, may be transferred to the Coordination and Monitoring Customs,
🔻his first deputy Yevhen Safonov and deputy Mykola Kryvoruchko are planned to be removed after a conflict with the new head of the State Service of Ukraine, Orest #Мандзій,
🔻Yurii Pshenychnyi has already been moved to non-operational duties with a one-month contract,
🔻the head of the Mostyska post, Mykola Petryshyn, is forecast to be dismissed in 18 September.
While the customs leadership fights over positions ahead of certification, tried-and-true corrupt mechanisms continue to operate on the ground. The epicenter of the latest scandal was the customs post “#Городок” (WMO No.2), where trucks with food products come under intense pressure from the regional State Service of Ukraine for Food Safety and Consumer Protection headed by #Білик.
Goods are massively sent for laboratory testing, keeping refrigerated trucks at the border for four days or more. This hits importers’ wallets through round-the-clock refrigerator operation, fuel consumption, and spoilage of perishable goods.
🔻A striking example is the Polish company #OLVAR SP. Z O.O., whose shipments were systematically blocked. One batch of tangerines lost 89,52% of its commercial value due to artificial delays and the practice of repeated sample-taking — first for phytosanitary control, then for food safety control. Customs reports compliance with regulations, while responsibility for missed deadlines is formally shifted to the adjacent service.
Well, Kerezvas is squeezed in the vise between the personnel purge and the large-scale scandals at subordinate posts, where businesses are systematically pushed out through artificial cargo blockages. A potential transfer to the Coordination and Monitoring Customs looks less like a promotion and more like an attempt to hide a toxic leader from the consequences of certification and high-profile investigations.
✅However, changing offices will not save from responsibility if the control vertical continues to generate millions in losses for international partners and to ruin the country’s investment image. And we will actively work to ensure that this happens.
Materials on the topic:
▫️Lviv Customs and the State Service for Food Safety and Consumer Protection organized a “sanitary genocide” against Polish business
▫️How Lviv Customs “squeezes” Polish suppliers through sanitary inspections
▫️The scheme at Murovane: who will answer for the million-dollar losses to business?
▫️Head of the State Service for Food Safety and Consumer Protection Tkachuk and the head of the regional administration Bilyk are destroying foreign business
▫️Serhii Tkachuk — head of the State Service for Food Safety and Consumer Protection, under whom imports became a profitable scheme
▫️Schemes for blocking cargo from the EU: food prices rise, partners’ trust falls
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