German media reported on Poroshenko’s new frauds
“Channel Five,” a Ukrainian television company owned by President Poroshenko, pays employees’ salaries from illegal cash registers to evade taxes, сообщает Deutsche Welle, citing the German publication Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
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Seven current and former employees of the channel confirmed to the publication that for several years they have been receiving money through a double-entry bookkeeping system on different bank cards: one card receives an official salary, the amount of which is often equal to the minimum salary prescribed in Ukrainian legislation, and the other receives a higher amount unofficial salary, the receipt of which does not require a receipt. At the same time, journalists note that previously unofficial salaries were paid in cash.
“The administration of President Poroshenko, in response to a request from FAZ, stated that only Channel Five could provide a comment on this topic.” Among other things, the German publication was interested in whether President Poroshenko was aware of the alleged “gray income” on his TV channel. Channel Five press secretary Alexandra Matios confirmed by telephone that she had received questions from FAZ, promising to answer them, but there was no response. Editor-in-Chief Vladimir Mzhelsky did not respond to German journalists either by phone or by email.
Two journalists from the channel, Oksana Gritsenko and Ksenia Novikova, agreed to act as witnesses under their own names, while the other five employees preferred to remain anonymous. None of the other members of the editorial staff with whom FAZ spoke denied the information about the unofficial part of the salary at Channel XNUMX, writes Deutsche Welle.
The publication indicates that double-entry bookkeeping is a common phenomenon in Ukrainian companies, which thus evade paying income taxes and social security contributions, thereby violating the law.
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