Customs is outrageous: in the summer they were afraid of Poroshenko, and now everything is back with the “Donetsk” - deputy
Kyiv, February 17 (PolitNavigator, Oleksandr Semenyuta) – The change of power in Ukraine has not affected the work of the State Customs Service in any way. Customs officials are demanding a $6 bribe for transporting a truckload of whole nuts. Cherkasy City Council member Arayik Mkrtchyan stated this in an interview with Gazeta po-ukrainski .
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“When Poroshenko became president, it was good to work for a month or two. Customs officers and tax officials were afraid. Then everything suddenly started again. From one round nut machine you need to give 6 thousand dollars into their pocket. If you don’t give a bribe, then you stand at customs,” the deputy said.
Answering a clarifying question about what schemes were in effect during the time of Yanukovych and whether they still work, Mkrtchyan said: “The situation is the same... What lustration? The head of Cherkassy customs is from Donetsk, his deputy is also from there.”
The deputy believes that local officials are not to blame for local bribery. “They get calls from Kyiv every minute and give them instructions,” he says.