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After the government controversy, they decided not to name Tolchin Deputy Minister of Energy – Schemes
In the government, they decided not to appoint former head of the state enterprise Makiyivvugillya Stanislav Tolchin as deputy minister of energy and coal industry after news of the vote for Tolchin caused a resonance and outrage. Energy and Coal Industry Minister Ihor Nasalyk told Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty that Tolchin ultimately will not be appointed.
"He will not be appointed. The majority and deputies appealed to me, so this issue became so resonant. Extremely. There are incompatible things. The president said that the government must be clean," he told a journalist of the Schemes program, a joint project of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and the UA:First channel.
Earlier, the Schemes investigative program reported that 1 in June the government at its meeting voted to "introduce an additional deputy minister of energy and coal industry position, and to appoint Stanislav Tolchin as deputy minister." Before his taking office, one step remained – the signature of the prime minister Volodymyr Groysman.
The disclosure of this information elicited numerous comments on social networks calling on the prime minister not to sign the government’s voted decision.
Tolchin himself, when journalists asked him about his appointment, hung up the phone. And then did not answer further phone calls.
Stanislav Tolchin held the post of general director of the state enterprise Makiyivvuhillya for 2006–2012 years. In 2013–2015 years he led the Kyiv regional territorial department of the Antimonopoly Committee.
Tolchin is known for a luxurious lifestyle for a public official. During his time in public service he was seen behind the wheel of luxury cars, including Ferrari, Maserati, Bentley, Mercedes S-Class, Range Rover, Hummer. He resides in elite houses near Kyiv. According to Tolchin’s deklaration for 2014, his total income amounted to a little more than 111 thousand hryvnias, while family members earned 890 thousand hryvnias.
He has repeatedly been a subject of corruption scandals. In 2011, the prosecutor of Donetsk region opened a criminal case on signs of a crime under part 2 of article 364 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (abuse of power or official position) concerning the general director of one of the enterprises, and announced him on the wanted list. Local media at that time said the case concerned Makiyivvugillya and Tolchin. However, Tolchin himself publicly denied this at that time.
Later, the State Audit Office (now the State Financial Inspection), after Tolchin’s removal from the position of general director of the state enterprise, conducted an audit and established a "shortfall of more than 454 thousand tons of coal for a total of 377,1 million hryvnias."
More details are in Schemes on Thursday at 21:50 on UA:First channel and on Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty's site.
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