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The State Customs Service was ordered to pay him two million hryvnias in wages.
The Kyiv Sixth Administrative Court of Appeal cancelled the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine’s decision and the State Customs Service’s order to terminate Ruslan Cherkasky from the post of deputy head of the State Customs Service in March 2023 year.
According to the court's ruling, Cherkasky was reinstated to the position as of 28 March 2023 year, and the State Customs Service was obliged to pay him 2,121 million hryvnias in wages for forced downtime.
Cherkasky was dismissed from the post after 1 February 2023 year the government terminated acting head of the State Customs Service Vyacheslav Demchenko and first deputy head Oleksandr Shchutsko. Cherkasky then went on sick leave and disciplinary proceedings were initiated against him.
Member of Parliament Yaroslav Zheleznyak at the time called Cherkasky the “real head of the customs.”
In the autumn of that year, the National Anti-Corruption Bureau and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office opened a case into Cherkasky’s alleged illegal enrichment. The investigation suspected that from the beginning of 2020 to the end of June 2022 year he acquired assets worth more than 6500 untaxed minimum incomes. At that time the court seized his wife Maria Tryfonova’s bank accounts.
In 2024 year, journalists from Radio Liberty uncovered property linked to Cherkasky in Dubai with an estimated value of $25 million.
And in the autumn of that year Cherkasky’s wife Maria Tryfonova became a figure in a high-profile case involving the sale of a counterfeit Biopatid drug. The Security Service of Ukraine stated that the turnover from selling the counterfeit amounted to millions of dollars.
While in office, Rusla Cherkasky attempted to regain the position since 2025 year, but lost in the first-instance court.
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