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Far from Ukrainian realities, the former head of the Eastern Regional Department of the State Tax Service, Bohdan Katrushyn, leads a luxurious life.

Bohdan Katrushyn, known for his past in the highest echelons of the Ukrainian tax service, now lives in Spain. This is evidenced, in particular, by his recently filed tax return.

Who is he anyway?

Katrushin Bohdan Mykolayovych is a lustrated official who, after lustration, was illegally reinstated in the tax service thanks to a bought court decision

Bohdan Mykolayovych Katrushyn, by the order of the Ministry of Revenue and Duties of 16.03.2015 №178-o, was dismissed from the position of the First Deputy Head of the Main Department of the Ministry of Revenue and Duties in the ARC on the basis of the Law “On lustration of power”, where he had worked since 04.06.2013.

Katrushin appealed the order in court, arguing that he should have been dismissed not on 16.03.2015 in connection with lustration, but on 29.08.2014 at his own request in connection with his admission to the National Academy of Public Administration under the President of Ukraine.

Crimea was already under occupation, but Bohdan Mykolayovych continued to hold the position of Deputy Head of the Crimean Tax Service. A rare crook.

After graduating from the academy, Katrushyn applied to the SFS on 18.03.2016 for a position in the SFS, which was denied due to the fact that he could not hold a position in accordance with the Law “On the Purification of Power”.

By the decision of the Kyiv District Administrative Court of 20.01.2020 in case No. 810/2057/16, upheld by the decision of the Sixth Administrative Court of Appeal of 21.09.2020, the court ordered the State Tax Service to provide Katrushyn B.M. with a position that is not lower, equivalent in terms of remuneration and nature of activity to the position determined by the agreement on referral to the Academy.

How did he manage to get such a court decision? It’s simple!

Katrushyn, in order to manipulate the automated system of distribution of court cases, filed 10 identical claims (cases No. 810/1640/16, 810/1654/16, 810/1743/16, 810/1744/16, 810/1745/16, 810/2055/16, 810/2056/16, 810/2057/16, 810/2058/16, 810/2059/16) and thus chose Judge Kushnova O.A., who considered the case as Katrushyn wanted. And who is Judge Kushnova, by the way? If you paint with broad strokes, there is nowhere to put the test there. She actively appears on Vovk’s tapes and reinstated a Lviv judge with a Russian passport in office

And what about the Tax Service? Nothing!

As is usual in this category of cases, it was merged!

The SFS submits a clumsy, formally drafted cassation appeal to the Supreme Court without paying the court fee, which the court returns. The court also explains to the SFS that it can resubmit the appeal.

However, neither the SFS nor the State Tax Service (as a successor) resubmitted the complaint.

By the way, the successor is just a formality. The case at the SFS was handled by people who had moved to the STS and were supposed to provide support.

Thanks to the efforts of Oleksiy Lyubchenko, Katrushyn was appointed first deputy head of the Main Department of the SFS in Kherson region in October 2020 and immediately transferred to the position of deputy head of the Main Department of the SFS in the same region.

In December 2020, Bohdan Katrushyn became the head of the Eastern Interregional Department of the State Tax Service for Large Taxpayers.

This is the implementation of the Law “On Lustration of Power” in the system of the State Tax Service.

Katrushyn, a tax officer who had been dismissed and reinstated several times (from the team of the decorated Major General of the Tax Police Oleksandr Nizenko), immediately saddled up his favorite horse in Dnipro – VAT. Together with his deputy Subota, they began to actively milk big business. One of the schemes involved redirecting clients with blocked tax invoices to the law firm of Katrushin’s friend and wallet, Denys Davydovych Statnikov. Under the guise of legal services for unblocking tax invoices, Denys Statnikov was fraudulently fleecing the business.

On April 1, 2022, Katrushyn was fired from his position as the head of the Eastern Interregional Department of the State Tax Service for Large Taxpayers.

“The real reason for his dismissal was his longstanding corruption, which could no longer be ignored. He made money on schemes that have long been known to everyone, such as blocking tax invoices or unblocking them. It’s a standard story: deliberately creating problems for large companies and then solving the issues for a fee. This is a classic of tax corruption that fed Katrushin for many years, until he got really brazen and set up the process on an industrial scale. That’s where he got caught,” says a law enforcement source.

Katrushin immediately challenged his dismissal in court, won the case, was reinstated in his position, and sued for compensation for his forced absenteeism! And this is despite the fact that immediately after the outbreak of war, Katrushin fled to Spain, taking his accomplice Denis Statnikov with him (he illegally crossed the border with Moldova by car on March 22, 2022).

Just think about it: a tax rat who has been parasitizing the state all his life fled to Spain at the outbreak of the war, from where he continues to steal millions of hryvnias from the budget of the warring country!

Although Katrushin’s friend Tetiana Kyrienko denies that Katrushin works for the tax office, this is only half true. Because he was reinstated by a court decision and is waiting for a convenient moment to decide on his next appointment. On perfectly legal grounds, because the tax office deliberately lost the courts!

Formally, Katrushin was fired for failing to properly execute documents for access to state secrets for at least six months, which blocked the work of the entire department.

Was such an experienced official unable to fill out the necessary documents? Of course he was. But the competent authorities categorically refused to visa them.

Firstly, Katrushin had a long-standing active business with the Russian Federation in purchasing railroad cars and then leasing them in Ukraine.

Secondly, his work in Crimea in 2014 as the deputy head of the Crimean tax service raises many questions. Somehow it happened that the entire leadership of the Crimean tax service safely returned to Ukraine during the Russian takeover of Crimea, but all databases, documents, etc. safely passed into Russian hands.

According to law enforcement sources, after his release, Katrushyn fled to Spain, taking with him everything he had “honestly earned” over the years in the civil service, knowing full well that law enforcement was already preparing a suspicion against him because of his corrupt dealings and cooperation with Russia.

And in Spain, Katrushyn went on a spending spree, spending all his “honestly earned” money in Ukraine on a new life.

As true “entrepreneurs,” Katrushin and Statnikov, along with their wives, founded Sk Costs Capital Invest SL, modestly locating their business in the picturesque city of Malaga, not far from the luxurious Marbella. The company has equally modest assets: eight apartments and eight non-residential premises that the Katrushin-Statnikovs rent out.

But this is just the tip of the iceberg. According to Katrushin’s 2022 declaration, he still has an equally modest house in Bucha with an area of 1,462 square meters, seven plots of land in the same city, three garages, two parking spaces, and four apartments in Kyiv, one of which is 242 square meters. And, of course, as a true car connoisseur, he managed to assemble a collection of four cars: two LAND ROVERS, including a brand new 2020 RANGE ROVER SPORT for more than UAH 2 million, as well as a Volkswagen Touareg and a Volkswagen Multivan.

But that’s not all. Katrushin declared a collection of coins, jewelry and works of art, but he, of course, did not want to disclose their value.

His wife Lyudmila is not far behind either: she owns a bunch of real estate and co-owns six companies, one of which, by the way, specializes in litigation with the tax authorities-a real family business. But here’s what’s really interesting: Lyudmyla was able to lend almost half a million euros to a Spanish company. A logical question arises: how and when did the NBU allow the withdrawal of these funds from Ukraine?

And this is despite the fact that in her entire life, Lyudmyla Katrushyna actually worked only a little in her younger days as an ordinary Vodafone manager. All the rest of the time, she has been nominally servicing her husband’s corrupt wealth.

The media declassified a photo of Katrushin’s “Spanish house”. However, this “house” looks more like a luxurious palace that only a very wealthy European or Ukrainian tax officer Bohdan Katrushyn can afford.

Officially, Katrushyn declares about a million euros on his personal accounts in foreign banks! And how much is registered in the names of relatives and straw men?

The big question for the NABU, SAPO, NAPC is why the state has not yet started hunting for the corrupt assets of odious corrupt officials? Instead of actively promoting the return of unjustified wealth to the state, and fugitive corrupt officials and their accomplices to Ukraine, what do we see? Silence. But it shouldn’t be this way. We hope that all corrupt assets will be recovered in favor of the state as soon as possible, and that no corruption crime or collaboration with the enemy will go unpunished.

Source: https://lenta.ua/koruptsiyna-karera-podatkivtsya-bogdana-katrushina-vid-lyustratsiyi-ta-spivpratsi-z-rf-do-rozkishnogo-zhittya-v-ispaniyi-163142/