A loud corruption scandal is breaking out among Ukrainian writers
Another corruption scandal is breaking out in the National Union of Writers of Ukraine (NSPU). General Director of the Property Management Directorate (DUI), Nikolai Ostrivny, identified significant violations in the economic activities of this literary organization, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
He reported this in a letter to the chairman of the NSPU Mykhailo Sidorzhevsky and members of the board, the Ukrainian News publication reports.
“Every month the Union loses more than one million hryvnia due to low rental prices. In conditions when Ukraine is at war with Russia, and money is needed for the defense of the country, accepting more than 900 hryvnia from the state for one’s needs is immoral,” the letter says.
As an example, Nikolai Ostrivny names the premises of the Writers' Union in the center of Kyiv at 52 Olesya Gonchar Street, with an area of 1500 square meters, rented out at a price of 80 thousand hryvnia per month. Although for these premises “you can receive at least 400 thousand hryvnia monthly.”
According to the General Director of the DUI, the chairman of the NSPU, with the tacit consent of the Secretariat, is purposefully, for personal purposes, trying to bring the Writers' Union to bankruptcy in order to sell the property of the NSPU for debts - for personal enrichment.
After several attempts to return the economic activities of the Union to the legal channel, in protest against the illegal actions of the chairman of the NSPU Sidorzhevsky, Nikolai Ostrivny wrote a letter of resignation and made his letter public.
Let us recall that two years ago a corruption scandal broke out in the NSPU, during which a group of secretaries accused the chairman of the Writers' Union of corruption and forced an audit of financial and economic activities. During the audit, the Audit Commission discovered the same violations that Ostrivny is now pointing out. However, the results of the inspection did not have any serious consequences for Sidorzhevsky.
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