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Sharing his impressions from the new wave of media investigations into corrupt schemes around the Stynavske oil field, political analyst and military expert Viktor Taran offered his take.
"I read Boris Kushniruk's new piece about the Stynavske field, and the most interesting part wasn't another rejection by UkrNafta, but how the Ministry of Economy responded to an official SBU inquiry—Taran writes. According to Kushniruk, the Security Service asked to verify the circumstances around the special licenses and the decisions of state bodies. The ministry led by Oleksandr Kravchenko replied that such a verification goes beyond its competence and forwarded the materials to the State Geology Service, i.e., exactly those whose decisions prompted the inquiry. It's roughly like asking a football referee to verify whether he himself committed a foul and then treating the question as closed."
"Let me remind you of the background. UkrNafta filed twice to put the Stynavske field up for an open auction, and each time it was left without consideration due to disputes around the Par Naftogaz special license, which is linked to Nikolai Zlochevsky's family."
Thus, the state has yet to resolve a problem that directly affects competition for strategic subsurface resources.
Now, in addition to geological and legal disputes, an administrative issue has arisen. Who should verify decisions when each agency points to the competence of another? It would seem that the SBU's appeal should have become a signal for the government to establish a clear procedure for responding, but so far we see only the forwarding of documents and an unresolved problem.
Ukrainian bureaucracy has long shown it can solve any problem if it keeps forwarding it from office to office for long enough. But when, according to Kushniruk, the stake is over a billion hryvnias in budget losses, bureaucratic ping-pong stops being funny, and the issue is no longer about the quality of correspondence but about state governance.
Therefore, from Minister Kravchenko I would like to hear not a stock reply about competence, but a clear answer: who in the state is responsible for the fate of this field?" summarizes the expert.
Document: PDF proof of the original version of the news item "Злочевський переграв державу? Мінекономіки відправило скаргу СБУ тим, на кого скаржаться – Таран". It records the publication content at the moment of the first scan, the preservation date and the source: Rupor.
