Acting Deputy Head of the State Tax Service Sokur did not indicate his cohabitant in his declaration for years

The acting deputy head of the State Tax Service entered allegedly inaccurate information in his 2023 declaration. In particular, he did not list his live-in partner in the document. Failure to declare data in Ukraine is punishable by administrative and criminal liability, UNN writes.

During the investigation into the alleged attempted assassination, 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. This is likely to be an apartment of more than 100 square meters, which he purchased in 2016 for more than 1.5 million hryvnias, or more than 600 thousand dollars at the exchange rate at the time.

However, Sokur never mentioned his girlfriend in his declarations.

In particular, the website of the National Agency for Prevention of Corruption has only three declarations of the official - for 2021, 2022  and 2023. In them, he indicates that he owns one of the apartments in half with his mother, Alina Sokur, who works as deputy director of the department - head of the department of privatization, corporate rights, formation and distribution of municipal property at KCSA. She owns the other two properties, 103.9 square meters and 62.9 square meters, independently. There is no mention of the tax officer's cohabitant in any column of the declaration.

At the same time, Ukrainian law requires officials to indicate in their declarations the persons with whom they live together.

"If the persons are not married, but live together, the official is still obliged to include his or her partner in the declaration," lawyer Serhiy Lysenko said in an exclusive commentary to UNN.

He added that administrative and criminal liability may be incurred for entering false information in the declaration or failing to declare data.

Recall

Earlier, UNN reported that the attempted assassination of the acting deputy head of the State Tax Service of Ukraine, Yevhen Sokur, raises many questions about its authenticity. It could have been stagedto divert attention from the criminal proceedings against Sokur for abuse of office.

We are talking about criminal proceedingsopened on November 4, 2022 under Part 3 of Art. 365 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine, on the fact of abuse of office by the acting Deputy Head of the State Tax Service of Ukraine Yevhen Sokur, who on October 26, 2022 issued an order to revoke the license of PJSC Ukrtatnafta for the production of fuel. Such actions of Sokur, 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.