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“Instead of a receipt — an affirmation”: the State Property Fund announced an audit of the Drohobych Salt Mine amid the fight for the enterprise
A battle for the Drohobych Salt Mine is unfolding. Deputies of the Drohobych City Council are asking the government to return the historic enterprise to the community, while the State Property Fund announced an audit due to suspicions that earnings from the state enterprise were funneled to private individual entrepreneurs who are distributing affirmations.
Head of the State Property Fund, Dmytro Natalukha, said that before deciding to put the salt mine up for auction, he personally visited the site “as a tourist” to assess the facility. However, he noted that when paying for goods and services there, no receipts were issued, and when he asked to have one, he was handed a slip with a wish.
“Over time a friend joined me. I shared this quirk with him, and he eagerly went to the cashier to test my words in practice. After obtaining the same paper analog of a fortune cookie with a forecast instead of a receipt (he also had to ask for it), he specified that he would like to receive a true ‘fiscal receipt.’”
A genuine buzz arose at the cash desk, and there was a question whether he was from the tax service. In response that he is just an ordinary Ukrainian citizen who, by law, should be given a receipt after payment, they said that the “senior” would come. The “senior” did come, and after asking him again whether he indeed wanted a “fiscal receipt,” he punched it on another cash register than the one from which the uplifting predictions or affirmations were coming.
The company’s details are not for Drohobitska Salt Mine LLC, 100%- owned by the state through the State Property Fund. The receipt shows the proprietor as a private individual entrepreneur, L.O. Garkusha, who receives money for anything you buy on the territory of the entirely state Drohobych Salt Mine.
Note that the state enterprise is currently managed by Oleh Petrenko, who is also a deputy of the Drohobych City Council. Recently he was twice barred from a competition for the head of the salt mine, after which the city council began promoting the idea of transferring it into municipal ownership.
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