The GPU 'is digging' at the finance minister – law enforcement studies Danyliuk’s foreign trips over 8 years

The GPU 'is digging' at the finance minister – law enforcement is examining Danyliuk’s trips abroad over 8 years

The Prosecutor General’s Office suspects the current finance minister of tax evasion.

The Pechersky District Court of Kyiv authorized investigators from the Prosecutor General’s Office to seize from the State Border Guard Service certified information about crossings of the state border of Ukraine by the current finance minister, Oleksandr Danyliuk, during 2004–2010 years, Ukrainian Realities reports citing glavcom.ua

According to the pretrial investigation, the high-ranking official is implicated in a criminal proceeding under the elements of part 1 of Article 212 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (“Evasion of payment of taxes and fees”), which was opened in April 2017. Law enforcement claims that while serving as head of the Coordination Center for the Implementation of Economic Reforms under President Viktor Yanukovych’s administration, Danyliuk earned 556,1 thousand hryvnias in income. During that time he managed to purchase a residential house with a total area of 290 sq. m for 2 million hryvnias, a BMW X5 vehicle, and to deposit 519,6 thousand hryvnias into a bank account.

In addition, the State Fiscal Service of Ukraine audited the finance minister’s income and in early November drew up a report on the understatement of personal income tax liability by 746,3 thousand hryvnias.

During the investigation, among other things, Danyliuk provided an explanation that he lived in the territory of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland for 2004–2010 years and had his “center of vital interests” in that same country. Therefore, on 23 November a forensic economic examination was ordered, for which documents needed to be seized from the State Border Guard Service.