A million-dollar bouquet or how the common-law wife of Hetmantsev's assistant does business

Alina Lebedeva's boutique, owned by Yevhenia Sokur, the common-law wife of MP Danilo Hetmantsev's aide, has reopened. Lebedeva advertises a bouquet worth more than 9 thousand hryvnias, UNN reports.

Context

After Yevhen Sokur was dismissed from the State Tax Service, Lebedeva's boutique was closed for "technical reasons." 

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Alina Lebedieva's flower shop has recently reopened, as evidenced by posts on the boutique's Instagram page. After a 5-week break, the shop owner posted a video in which she advertised a bouquet worth more than 9,000 hryvnias.

When the client says "make it to your taste", we get such works of floral art. The cost of the composition: 9 250 UAH,

After studying the boutique's profile, it becomes clear that such expensive bouquets are obviously ordered infrequently. After all, there are only a few bouquets worth more than 8 and 9 thousand hryvnias on the page in the pinned stories. The rest are much cheaper.

This suggests that in this way the civilian wife of the former acting deputy head of the State Tax Service Sokur may try to legalize her wealth through the alleged increase in sales of expensive bouquets. Especially if we take into account that the ex-official only mentioned in his last declaration that he cohabited with Alina Lebedieva and did not indicate either her income from business activities or the funds she owns.

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Earlier, during the investigation into the alleged attempted assassination attempt, Yevhen Sokur told law enforcement officers that since 2016 he had been living with a girl named Alina in an apartment at 6-D Lobanovskoho Avenue. Following a deputy appeal from Nina Yuzhanina, a member of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Finance, Taxation and Customs Policy, the NACP launched an investigation into Yevhen Sokur. In response to a request from UNN, the Agency also confirmedthat they are monitoring the official's lifestyle. The head of the Public Council at the NAPC, Kateryna Butko, noted that the National Agency for the Prevention of Corruption is checking whether Sokur and his partner Alina lived together.

Later, it turned out that Sokur lives with Alina Lebedieva. According to the Youcontrol system, the girl registered as a sole proprietor on August 3, 2022. The main KVED of activity  is retail sale of flowers, plants, seeds, fertilizers, pets and pet food in specialized stores. It is worth noting that Sokur was promoted to a senior position at the tax office less than three months earlier, in May 2022. In a little over a year of work during the full-scale war, Alina Lebedieva was doing so well that on her birthday, November 1, 2023, she announced the opening of a flower boutique in the heart of the capital, in the Leonardo business center. 

According to Serhiy Dorotych, head of the #SaveFOP movement, Sokur's stunning success may be due to another very interesting aspect: legalization of funds through her business.

NACP head Viktor Pavlushchyk told UNN that the agency continues to monitor Yevhen Sokur's lifestyle.

Recall

Sokur is also being investigated for a criminal offense of malfeasance in office. This case was opened by the SBI on November 4, 2022, under Part 3 of Article 365 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine, on the fact of abuse of power by Sokur, who signed an order on October 26, 2022, to revoke Ukrtatnafta's license for fuel production. Such actions of the official, according to the investigation, caused serious consequences for the company and the state in the form of the inability to fulfill the mobilization tasks of the Ministry of Defense for the production and supply of petroleum products for the needs of defense and defense capability of the state. The State Bureau of Investigation informed UNN that this criminal proceeding is still under investigation.