Head of Zelenskyy's party announces dismissal of all state customs officials and springtime imprisonments

Davyd Arakhamiia, Head of the Servant of the People party faction, has announced the dismissal of the entire management team of the State Customs Service and the imprisonment of corrupted staff in the spring.

Source: Arakhamiia on Telegram

Quote from Arakhamiia: "I will inform the public about the announced spring imprisonments.

Today:

• searches in the Tax Service;
• serving notices of suspicion to high-ranking officials of the Ministry of Defence;
• searches at Kolomoyskyi-owned Ukrnafta [Ihor Kolomoyskyi is a billionaire businessman, once considered a leading oligarch in Ukraine; Ukrnafta is a large domestic oil company];
•  a whole series of covert investigative actions;
• searches at Avakov's place [Arsen Avakov, i.e., a former Interior Minister of Ukraine];
• searches at Stolar's place [Vadym Stolar, i.e. Head of the Kyiv branch of the pro-Russian party Opposition Platform – For Life]
• dismissal of the entire management team of the State Customs."

Details: The official from the pro-presidential party said that "the country will change during the war," and if someone is not ready for change, "the state will come and help them prepare."

Background:

• On 1 February, Ukrainian security forces and law enforcement officers conduct a series of searches among various officials and serve notices of suspicion.
• In particular, Counterintelligence and investigators of the Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) have exposed new facts of criminal activity of Vyacheslav Bohuslaiev, President of the Motor Sich company, who is already suspected of working for the aggressor country. He has been served with another notice of suspicion.
• The Security Service of Ukraine and the Bureau of Economic Security conduct a search of oligarch Ihor Kolomoyskyi’s house in the city of Dnipro.
• The Prosecutor General's Office served notices of suspicion to Bohdan Khmelnytskyi, former Deputy Director of the Defence Ministry's public procurement department; Viacheslav Shapovalov, former Deputy Defence Minister, and Volodymyr Tereshchenko, Former Deputy Director of the state-owned company Promoboronexport.
• The Security Service of Ukraine and the State Bureau of Investigation conducted searches at the house of former Interior Minister Arsen Avakov.
• On 1 February, the SSU also searched the house of Vadym Stolar, a Kyiv property developer and a member or parliament from the banned Russian-backed Opposition Platform – For Life party.
• On 1 February, the State Bureau of Investigation is conducting searches of the Kyiv tax authorities.
• On 23 January, Arakhamiia said that corrupt officials would be held liable and announced that many of these would be taken to prison this spring.

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