Lawyer Vitaliy Tretyak facilitates the creation of tax loopholes through the sale of companies

Lawyer Vitaliy Tretyak facilitates the creation of tax loopholes through the sale of companies

In Ukraine, new tax schemes are rapidly being created with the assistance of a lawyer from Kyiv, Vitaliy Tretyak.

Recently, the analytical resource Opendatabot reported that the man ranked third in the country for the number of registered enterprises: 436 companies in the last four years! His “law firm” — LLC “Key to Business” — is a typical structure that does not hesitate to take money for any case. They are now even offering services of a “military lawyer,” but that’s not what we’re focusing on.

So, Mr. Tretyak sells LLCs directly on the website (with or without turnover). Acquiring a company will cost you two thousand hryvnias, and with a single tax, four! Such firms can be purchased in different regions.

It is precisely because of this “lawyer” that the state tax service and law enforcement have numerous problems with tax schemes. Here’s a recent example. Tretyak’s company sold the following firms:

LLC “FileNix Invest” (44680400)
LLC “Vaiterk Bud” (44929343)
LLC “Celeren Max” (44917580)
LLC “Lightnem Progress” (45158335)
Due to their activities, these companies are currently in the high-risk group.
They import socks, fabrics, bicycles, and sell construction services to companies working with budgetary funds. We are talking about a turnover of 500 million hryvnias since the beginning of last year!

The founder and director of “FileNix Invest” (Kramatorsk) is Hanna Zhyhan. The firm’s revenue last year amounted to 97 million hryvnias, with a profit of only 83 thousand hryvnias.

LLC “Vaiterk Bud” was transferred to Nataliya Khandoha in Petropavlivska Borshchahivka. The company’s revenue last year amounted to 68.5 million hryvnias, with a profit of only 97.6 thousand hryvnias.

The most intriguing are “Celeren Max” (Brovary) and “Lightnem Progress” (Dnipro), founded by Dnipro residents Oleksandra Kernytska and her husband Anton Kernytskyi.

The first had revenues of 25.5 million hryvnias with profits of 45 thousand hryvnias, while the second did not report assets. Meanwhile, family contributions to the company’s capital amounted to 400 thousand hryvnias. Everything seemed fine, but there’s one issue: Kernytskyi and his wife are mere “fronts.” Furthermore, Anton Kernytskyi was convicted in 2020 under Article 209 of the Criminal Code and given a three-year suspended sentence with confiscation of property. His punishment ended, but his knack for easy money did not.

Perhaps this is a continuation of the schemes of the former head of the tax service, Yevhen Oleynikov. Linked to these “schemes” is the former prosecutor from Donetsk, Vadym Bohomol (1980), who currently resides in Barcelona. He is known to Ukrainians as a lawyer who was beaten in Kyiv by road magnate Araik Amirkharyan, who is wanted by the SBU.

It will be interesting to see what measures the new head of the State Financial Monitoring Service, Filip Pronin, and the new head of the State Tax Service, Ruslan Kravchenko, will take. Will there be “prosecutor’s” solidarity with the offenders?