The Main Service Center of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine is planning to conduct an unscheduled internal audit and at least replace the entire management team. It is possible that a similar measure will be applied to other Service Centers in the country.
This was reported by the Ministry of Internal Affairs on December 4. This was the ministry’s response to a journalistic investigation by Bihus.Info.
According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Service Centers expect a “large-scale reboot” of all work processes. In particular, a working group has already been set up to improve the digital services of the TSCs.
“As for the management and officials of TSC No. 8041 in Kyiv, the Ministry of Internal Affairs has already asked the NACP to conduct a thorough monitoring of the lifestyles of the persons involved in the journalistic investigation,” the ministry said.
TSC 8041 (Kyiv, 20 Peremohy St.) is the subject of the next Bihus.info story.
“Service centers work inefficiently and cannot cope with servicing citizens. People spend the night outside the service center in line to get vouchers for the practical exam, they have to hunt for an electronic voucher around the clock because of the system’s malfunction, and “runners” sell them for money. Meanwhile, the employees of the SC drive to work in cars that are not listed in their declarations because they are registered either to relatives or to strangers,” the investigation states.
Last year, the National Police investigated a case against the management of this Center, which “artificially created a shortage of coupons” by allowing “runners” to sell the Center’s services for 3-4 thousand UAH. But the case ended with a sentence only for the “runner,” “and the problem with the shortage of coupons has not been resolved since,” the journalists say.
This TSC is headed by Oleksandr Boyko. His declaration states that he lives in someone else’s apartment and drives his father’s 10-year-old Toyota Land Cruiser. However, his wife flaunts cars on Instagram that “were not listed in the declarations”: BMW X3 (from $50 thousand), Volkswagen ID.4 electric cars (from $30 thousand) and BMW IX3 (from $60 thousand). Moreover, the cars were registered in the name of Boyko’s father-in-law and all were bought new.
TSC administrator Volodymyr Naumenko uses an Audi E-Tron (over $40,000) at work, but this car is registered to his 22-year-old son. Naumenko’s wife has an apartment in a new building and a new Highlander, his eldest son has a separate apartment in another new residential complex, a dacha on the Kyiv Sea, a large amount of land in Muzychi near Kyiv, and a Toyota Camry, and his younger son also has an apartment in the same residential complex and the aforementioned E-Tron.
The Lexus NX 300 in the service parking lot behind the SC (pictured) is registered to the mother-in-law of the administrator Anatolii Klymenko. His declaration shows that the apartment in the new building was given to him by his retired father, and it allegedly cost only UAH 50 thousand.Also, a new Lexus NX 450H+ (from $60 thousand) is registered for the retired father.
Administrator Natalia Los drives two different Teslas – a Tesla Model 3 and a Tesla Model Y, although she officially has only a “not very fresh” Dodge Challenger.
Administrator Serhiy Panchenko does not have a wife in any of his declarations. However, his Toyota Land Cruiser Prado is registered in her name, and “the woman has been posting family photos with Panchenko on social media for many years.” Panchenko’s mother owns a private house in Mizhrichchia near Kyiv, and his father owns another Toyota Land Cruiser Prado.
