While former tax chief Serhiy Verlanov is settling into life in Germany, his longtime friend and, as media investigations claim, accomplice, Vasyl Kostyuk, is at risk of being added to the National Security and Defense Council's new sanctions list.
So, on April 9, sanctions will allegedly be introduced against those involved in VAT laundering. The list was published and soon deleted by a Telegram channel. journalist Evgeny Plinsky "Dirty Games" features a lawyer and schemer from Lviv, Kostyuk ("Vasya Lvovsky").
Kostyuk's traces can also be traced back to the period when Verlanov headed the tax service:
Kostyuk is a well-known lawyer and businessman who has been publicly accused for many years of multi-billion dollar VAT fraud. He is a major general in the tax police. Yuri Atamanyuk в interview with Gordon called Kostyuk the organizer of an entire criminal group, which, with a turnover of 25 billion hryvnias, has an income of about 2,5 billion hryvnias.
If the tax authorities' estimates are even vaguely accurate, Kostyuk is a hryvnia billionaire. "A well-known little platform has appeared... It's a conversion center in Lviv. Its owner is Vasyl Kostyuk," the general explains.
Vasyl Kostyuk is also referred to in the media as Sergey Verlanov's "childhood friend." There is indirect evidence to support this—they both graduated with degrees in law from the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv in 2003. The classmates continued to communicate after graduation.
OBOZREVATEL previously published a list of companies that allegedly comprise Kostyuk's conversion center. The lion's share of these companies have already been embroiled in scandals. It was this list that former Finance Minister Igor Umansky handed over to law enforcement agencies with his complaint about large-scale tax evasion using these schemes.
For example, Erika LTD was involved in a case involving the illegal production of cigarettes and their legalization without paying excise taxes (this case concerns the Lviv Tobacco Factory). The shadow cigarette market is growing every year, and its cunning participants are quickly becoming millionaires.
Vasily Kostyuk knows how to invest in his people. He sent promising employees to pay tuition at top universities and lobbied his associates for high-ranking positions in law enforcement. According to media reports, Verlanov was one of these investments.
As a reminder, the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine imposed sanctions against top smugglers. Among them is the notorious Vadym Alperin, considered one of the main smugglers in Odesa.
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