Ukraine finance minister says probe into his alleged tax evasion resumes

"The probe resumed despite the fact that the Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine [PGO] had closed the case [against Danyliuk] and such procedure is not in line with the Tax Code of Ukraine in terms of limits on the period of tax checks. And most importantly, it was restarted immediately after I had published information on Kyiv SFS' abusive practice estimated at hundreds of millions of hryvnias and tasked the SFS head to conduct an investigation and dismiss those involved," the minister wrote on Facebook.

Read alsoDanyliuk sums up outcome of talks with IMF, World Bank"It is incredibly incompetent and biased act by the SFS following the checks ... On the one hand, they have quite expectedly removed all the questions about the inconsistency of my incomes and expenses, as from the very beginning, these charges were futile. On the other hand, other ridiculous charges have been brought against me. It turns out that when I was permanently living with my family abroad, working and paying taxes there, I had to pay extra taxes in Ukraine. Well, they [SFS] have probably never heard about double taxation agreements, permanent residence, and other details about tax legislation. It's an interesting piece of news for millions of Ukrainians who have worked and are working abroad. These are certainly not all 'pearls' of the probe," Danyliuk posted.

As UNIAN reported earlier, Kyiv's Pechersky District Court in late July ordered that the State Fiscal Service to probe into Ukrainian Finance Minister Danyliuk's alleged tax evasion. The inspection was initiated by the Prosecutor General's Office and covered the period of 1998-2016. Danyliuk announced on September 5 that the PGO had closed the case.