The former head of the State Tax Service (2011-2012)
and income and tax minister from 2012 to 2014, Oleksandr Klymenko, has been
summoned to the Prosecutor General's Office (PGO) for questioning, according to
the summons published on the website of the PGO.
At 10:00 on August 19, Klymenko must appear in the
second investigative department of the Investigative Department of the Chief
Military Prosecutor's Office of the PGO "for participation in the
proceedings as a suspect in criminal case No. 12013220540000400."
As UNIAN reported earlier, late in May 2016, newly
appointed Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko transferred the Klymenko case to
First Deputy Military Prosecutor Volodymyr Zhebrytsky for further
investigation. In September 2015, Klymenko was notified of the charges under
two criminal cases: illegal refunds of value-added tax in 2012-2013, which
resulted in UAH 3 billion (US$120 million) loss to the budget, and money
laundering through bogus companies.
The European Union (EU) on March 5, 2014, froze the
assets of 18 former high-ranking officials who were suspected of
misappropriation of state property in Ukraine. Yanukovych topped the sanctions
list. Klymenko was also among the sanctioned ex-officials. The sanctions were
originally introduced for 12 months, but later extended. In June 2016, Klymenko
said the EU had lifted the sanctions against him.
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