Deputy Head of the OP Rostislav Shurma has been dismissed. The corresponding order appeared on the website of the President of Ukraine.
The reason for the dismissal has not yet been publicly announced.
Forbes, citing sources, wrote about “the lack of a common vision with international partners on key issues, including raising taxes.”
As a top official in the Presidential Office, Rostislav Shurma became famous for a number of initiatives that provoked a flurry of discussions in the expert community. Among them are the idea of a tax reform “everything for 10” and the rejection of cash. The latter idea was publicly criticized even by the NBU, and Shurma’s tax reform apparently did not have the support of the IMF.
A year later, Bihus.Info. journalists investigated that the state paid UAH 320 million to solar power plants in the occupied territories belonging to his brother Rostislav Shurma. The top official of the OP insists that his brother is a “successful entrepreneur” and that the journalistic investigations were allegedly ordered by oligarchs who are settling accounts with him. The NAPC drew up a protocol on administrative violations.
In February 2024, the National Agency for the Prevention of Corruption drew up a protocol on Rostislav Shurma. The Agency noted that in 2022, he organized the Electric Power Committee under the OPU, the participants of which met under his chairmanship. At the same time, he did not report the existing conflict of interest, and the committee’s decision was secured by multimillion-dollar payments to his brother’s companies.
At the same time, Shurma himself did not hide the fact that by the end of 2020 he had invested about $10 million in his brother’s company, and in 2021-2022, together with his wife, he lent his brother another UAH 430 million.
At the same time, until recently, Shurma’s brother Oleg was the director of a venture fund that allowed him to optimize tax payments worth hundreds of millions of hryvnia.
Source: Racurs
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