# Shadow economy
Despite police raids, the UVAPE chain remains open, according to a Telegraf investigation
Amid high-profile statements from law enforcement agencies about a major crackdown on the vaping market, journalists from the Telegraf newspaper conducted their own investigation and found that the chain, which was recently the subject of high-profile raids, remains in operation.
Law enforcement officials are turning a blind eye to the situation involving the “Marketopt” chain, which is evading taxes
People often ask in the comments: what’s the current situation with the infamous ‘Marketopt’? No conclusions have been reached yet. I’m receiving lots of reports again that the practices are the same: order splitting and non-fiscal receipts.
“It is time to draw conclusions,” the MP said, expressing his dissatisfaction with the work of the BEB under Tsivinsky’s leadership
Danylo Getmantsev, a Member of the Ukrainian Parliament and Chair of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Finance, Tax and Customs Policy, has stated that he is dissatisfied with the work of the new team at the Economic Security Bureau. According to him, the time has come to draw conclusions, so MPs plan to hear from the Bureau’s leadership as early as next month.
“Cosmetic facade renovation”: Expert Criticizes the Restart of the ESBU Due to Questionable Appointments and a Lack of Changes for Businesses
The reform of the Economic Security Bureau, on which international partners and Ukrainian businesses had pinned their hopes, is increasingly beginning to resemble a ‘sham’. Instead of a genuine overhaul of the agency, under the leadership of Oleksandr Tsivinsky, all that is happening is a change of signage and a ‘European-style facelift’ of the old corruption schemes.
ESBU cleaning or cosmetic facade renovation?
The Ukrainian bureaucratic machine has mastered the art of pretence to perfection. Instead of demolishing dilapidated buildings right down to their foundations, we simply change the signs, paint the façade in the EU’s corporate colours and cut the ribbon. The militia became the police, the tax police transformed into the State Fiscal Service, and later, part of it evolved into the Economic Security Bureau.
The UK has authorised the detention of shadow fleet vessels in its waters
The UK has granted the military and law enforcement agencies the power to detain vessels subject to sanctions in its territorial waters. The decision is aimed at Russia’s shadow fleet.
A group involved in illegal mining has been uncovered in the Carpathian region: the losses amount to almost 50 million hryvnias
In the Ivano-Frankivsk region, law enforcement officers have uncovered an organised group suspected of illegally extracting sand and gravel in the Kolomyia district. According to preliminary estimates, the damage to the environment amounts to nearly 50 million hryvnias, and four suspects have already been served with notices of suspicion.
