Lagutina Zlata Volodymyrivna
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Head of the Main Department of the State Tax Service in Kyiv.
In 1985, she graduated from the Kyiv Institute of Trade and Economics, specializing in Commodity Research and Organization of Food Trade, with a degree in Commodity Research.
Career.
- From 1984 to 2010, she worked in commercial structures.
- In 2010-2011, she was Deputy Head of the State Tax Service in Kyiv.
- From 2011 to 2015, she returned to work in private enterprises.
- In 2015, she joined the State Fiscal Service. She was the Head of the Tax and Customs Audit Department of the Main Department of the SFS in Kyiv.
- Since 2019, she has been Deputy Head of the Main Department of the State Tax Service in Kyiv.
- Since 2020 — Head of the Main Department of the State Tax Service in Kyiv.
Zlata Lagutina is a certified auditor: she has held the A series certificate since 2004. She holds a PhD in Economics, specializing in Economics and Management of Enterprises (by type of economic activity).
Family.
She has a son and a husband, Gennadiy.
Related parties
- none
Personal information
The State Fiscal Service of Ukraine is a very appetizing trough for scammers. Today we will talk about a glamorous and rich woman — Zlata Lagutina.
There is an interesting PEP registry. The service posts materials about corrupt officials who launder dirty money through the international banking system. What is interesting on this site about Zlata Lagutina’s “fortune”?
Let’s see:
Such an increase is normal… from 150 to 890 thousand per year… No comment.
Do you want to know who really moves the money and controls the capital in the SFS?
There are two main pockets in this scheme. First, it is Nonna Bagmet, a protégé of the head of the SFS. Secondly, it is the clan of Oleh Nyzenko, nicknamed Ninja, the former head of the SFS in Kyiv from 2008 to 2010. By the way, in 2017, during a search of the ex-head of the Kyiv tax office, a lot of interesting things were seized: a million dollars, a quarter of a million euros, several kilograms of gold and several luxury cars. This was reported by Censor.
One of his “pockets” or “pockets” is Zlata Lagutina, an honored economist of Ukraine.
It is this lady who oversees the audit of this state structure. There is also Mykola Ilshenko, a kind of “St. Nicholas” who “solves” slippery issues with law enforcement agencies and also keeps an eye on a little bit of everything, in particular, he is in charge of VAT refunds.
The situation in the Audit Department is quite intriguing. Director Inna Yakushko, who was originally Lyudmyla Demchenko’s man, suddenly changed course and aligned herself with Lagutina.
In total, this department has 8 divisions, which can be figuratively divided into three categories:
Cashiers. They carry out typical petty extortions from the capital’s shops and restaurants, plus lunches for Zlata, currency exchange profits, flowers and other tinsel that she likes to know.
Planners. They include the departments of Kakherska and Kravchuk, who are close to Zlata, and who are also a relative of the aforementioned Nizenko. They are in charge of scheduled inspections. A very profitable “trough” with constant extortion. For your understanding, the fee is 10 thousand dollars in your pocket, and 300 to 350 thousand hryvnias directly to the budget.
Assistants. This is the rest of the team that helps Lagutina and the aforementioned people stay afloat.
How Lagutina covers up tax crimes and commits fraud
The NGO “Ukraine Against Arbitrariness of Officials” shared unique materials that few people have heard about. According to the Tax Code of Ukraine, there is a clear procedure for conducting actual inspections of business entities. This is no secret, but for some commissioners, such as Lagutina, unfortunately, this fact is not always an instruction to follow.
Over the past year and a half, the NGO has sent about 26 appeals, statements, and notifications to the Head of the State Fiscal Service of Ukraine about violations of the Tax Code by the following business entities that caused significant economic damage to our country:
- Adamant LLC;
- Adamant-Telecom LLC;
- Doklab LLC;
- FOP Remennikov S.V.
Then the same head of the SFS made an order and passed the same appeals for consideration and processing to his deputy, i.e., at that time Lagutina. And then the system failed… Instead of acting in accordance with the law and conducting proper on-site inspections of these companies, she has been covering up tax crimes of the above companies for a long time, while repeatedly falsifying facts and committing forgery in order to obtain personal benefits in large amounts.
The situation is a stalemate. The NGO has opened 13 criminal cases against Adamant LLC and Adamant Telecom alone…
And according to preliminary data, with Lagutina’s complicity, Remennikov alone caused losses to the state in the amount of about UAH 670 thousand, including through tax evasion for websites and dozens of online stores he sold abroad.
Kyiv Tax Service: two bosses in one year
The Kyiv Tax Service can be called a “female kingdom” because it is headed by a woman, Zlata Lagutina, and three of its four deputies are also women. And the former heads of the Kyiv tax office were also women: from 2015 to July 2019, Lyudmyla Demchenko, and from July 2019 to June 2020, Nonna Bagmet. Telegram channels reporting on fraud in the tax service reported on the protection provided by Nonna Bagmet to VAT fraudsters. There were at least 16 of them in the capital.
The Don Quixote Telegram channel wrote about the connection between the Kyiv City State Tax Service and the odious businessman Viacheslav Strelkovsky, who, according to media reports, was involved in the operation of «conversion centers» through Alliance Logistics LLC and generated a turnover of UAH 60 million, including UAH 12 million in VAT, in February alone.
In May, another Telegram channel, Chornyi Mytar, reported VAT fraud worth UAH 30 million. Azaris Trading House LLC.
«The output includes, among other things, medical equipment for the 5th Children’s Hospital (feeding tubes for babies, vascular catheters). This is money earned from our children’s illnesses. The schemes are becoming more and more brazen and cynical,» the authors of the telegram channel wrote. Indeed, Azaris LLC is known as a regular participant in tenders for the supply of medical equipment, as well as a successful participant, earning UAH 189 million 733 thousand 907 in 2017-2018. For example, in 2018, the company supplied a set of equipment for the central sterilization department to Vinnytsia Regional Clinical Hospital No. 1 named after Pirogov for UAH 37.35 million, as well as a heart-lung machine with the possibility of modularization to the same hospital for UAH 11.75 million. Interestingly, the formal owner of Azaris is a citizen Yevhen Gasiukov, who is registered in the non-government controlled part of Luhansk region. The director is Pavlo Schatlivenko, who is associated with 69 companies. The close attention paid to the State Tax Service after the April scandals and May searches prompted the new leadership to change the staff in the Kyiv emergency service. In June, it was headed by Zlata Lagutina, who has 10 years of experience in the tax service. However, according to the same Don Quixote channel, the re-grading of goods continues to be registered, citing Staff Trading LLC as an example.
The company, which has been operating since 2004, is well known to law enforcement as a defendant in 502 (there is no mistake here, it is 502) court documents related to criminal cases. According to the most recent one, a ruling of the Pechersk District Court of Kyiv dated March 2, Personnel Trading LLC is listed in a long list of “transit and conversion group” companies that Kyiv law enforcement officers use to provide tax evasion services.
The queen of tax schemes Zlata Lagutina pleased with her declaration
The notorious head of the tax capital of Ukraine, Zlata Lagutina, declared UAH 4.8 million in cash and bank funds, a private house and 2 apartments registered to third parties, as well as 4 cars and an elite Swiss watch.
You won’t see anything too valuable in Lagutina’s declaration. All that is registered in Zlata Volodymyrivna’s name is a single, lonely land plot. And all the property is concentrated in the ownership of third parties.
We analyzed Zlata Lagutina’s declarations for 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018.
At first, the deputy head of the SFS declared her salary from the listed commercial entities, and then her civil servant’s income.Her husband Hennadii Lagutin is an entrepreneur. Out of ten KVEDs, one is the main one: Retail sale of clothing in specialized stores. Last year, he declared a total of over UAH 1500,000 in income, including from LLC “BC Centerbud-Alliance”, which is currently managed by Olena Tokovenko, and LLC “Gaura-plus”.
By the way, it was Olena Tokovenko who transferred the AUDI A5 car to Zlata Lagutina’s son for use.
Zlata Lagutina’s son, Volodymyr, is a registered entrepreneur and has the same specialization as his father. Last year, at the age of 22, he earned 1040000 UAH. That’s pretty good for a young guy.
As we mentioned earlier, Zlata Lagutina owns only one 0.26-hectare plot of land for personal farming, which she received in 2015. At the same time, her son Volodymyr also received a plot for construction.
In addition, since 2017, the entire family has been using a 217.6 square meter house in Kyiv owned by Yaroslav Volodymyrovych Sopov, a business partner and probably a relative of Zlata Lagutina. However, the real estate register did not show any houses of this size assigned to Sopov. Instead, Yaroslav Sopov has nine plots of land in Kyiv, all of which are very finely divided. Some are under construction, while others already have buildings.
We also found five large apartments in one building on Yabluneva Street in Kyiv owned by Sopov. They were registered on the same day and by the same notary. Quite ambitious for a person who is engaged in retail trade outside of stores. At least, that’s what Sopov’s registration documents say. What do you know about Yaroslav Sopov besides his business cooperation with Lagutina? Previously, the man was listed among the founders of the ARCTIC company, where Lagutina was the financial director. According to the register of entrepreneurs, he is registered in the apartment next door to the tax officer.
And in general, he is the same age as her brother. However, there is one more fact that brings Sopov and Lagutina’s family closer together: the same mobile phone number listed in the registration data of her husband, Zlata Lagutina’s son, and Yaroslav Sopov — 0674071199. How can all three use the same number? It’s a mystery. Zlata Lagutina has owned a MAZDA CX-7 since 2008 and a TOYOTA CAMRY since 2012. The cost of both is not disclosed. At the same time, her husband Hennadii Volodymyrovych drives a LEXUS GX 460 SUV. Yaroslav Sopov has also recently registered a brand new TOYOTA CAMRY.
Zlata Lagutina was the deputy of the notorious Lyudmyla Demchenko in the Kyiv tax office. Of course, if we evaluate Lagutina’s wealth alone, it is quite modest. However, the presence of a close person, Yaroslav Sopov, with numerous real estate properties without a clearly positioned business, requires verification by the controlling authorities in the process of her transfer to the newly created tax service.
According to the declaration, Zlata Lagutina has the right to use an apartment (69.45 square meters), and her son and husband have the right to use an apartment in Kyiv (44.4 square meters). Her husband also owns a private house in Kyiv (217 sq. m.) on a leasehold basis, and Zlata Lagutina has owned a plot of land in the village of Zdorovka (2,690 sq. m.) since 2015. It is worth noting that the head of the Kyiv tax office owns Swiss watches by Chopard and Breguet, as well as diamond earrings made by the Kyiv Jewelry Factory.
There are 4 cars in the family’s fleet: Toyota Camry (2012) and Mazda CX-7 (2007) belong to Zlata Lagutina, Lexus CX460 (2010) and UAZ 469B (1982) to her husband Gennadiy Lagutin.
Head of Kyiv State Tax Service Zlata Lagutina facilitated multimillion-dollar coal schemes of ex-MP Shkriblyak and Poroshenko’s ally
Coal corruption schemes of former MPs Anatoliy Shkriblyak and Ihor Kononenko are functioning thanks to the assistance of the leadership of the Kyiv City Tax Service and personally of its acting head Zlata Lagutina.
368.media has obtained a number of documents and data that indicate that high-ranking officials of the State Tax Service, including the head of the department, are involved in covering up billion-dollar coal schemes and those related to the operation of CHPs under their control.
Here’s a simple example of a withdrawal of funds — the movement on the current account of the coal supplier to the TPP, New Ark East LLC, for two months of 2019. The red color indicates the «margin» — the amount that was withdrawn from the company and cashed out with the help of tax officials from Kyiv.
Shkriblyaka-Kononenko: businessman and former top official of the SFS and the Ministry of Internal Affairs Sergiy Mishchenko and his former subordinate Olena Mazurova, Kononenko’s man.
Mishchenko and Mazurova agreed on “hassle-free” inspections: minimal fines and payments to the budget and confirmation of the legality of all financial transactions for the period under inspection. So far, the “budget” for each such inspection is $300,000 per company, but there is an agreement that if egregious violations are found, the budget will be “adjusted,” a source in the Energy Ministry said.
In addition, Olena Mazurova, through her friend, acting head of the Kyiv State Tax Service Zlata Lagutina, is in contact with the acting head of the Office of Large Taxpayers, Nonna Bagmet, on these issues. Bagmet also receives instructions on these issues from the head of the State Tax Service, with whom Sergiy Mischenko personally negotiated.
It is worth noting that it is extremely important for Zlata Lagutina and her deputy Mykola Ilyashenko that all inspections go smoothly — they provide the “tools” for tax optimization, twists, conversions, etc. for the Shkriblyak-Kononenko schemes, and they receive a percentage of the amounts.
In this regard, and thanks to connections in the Prosecutor General’s Office and the SBU, where the scheme was covered up by the head of the Department for Supervision in Criminal Proceedings Volodymyr Bedrykivsky and the head of the Department for Economic Investigation Volodymyr Hutsulyak, as well as the former first deputy head of the SBU Pavlo Demchyna, no participant or organizer of the schemes, including directors, accountants of energy companies and firms, etc., was exposed from September 2019 to September 2019. e. Since September-October 2019, when the first criminal proceedings were opened, no one has even been summoned for questioning, no audits have been conducted, and no documents have been seized.
According to our information, no real investigation is currently underway in any case.
According to our data, only through fraudulent coal supplies to Shkriblyak’s CHP plant, one of the companies involved in the scheme, New Ark East LLC, with the help of tax authorities, withdrew more than UAH 35 million in February-March 2019, which was cashed out to controlled companies after being transferred to controlled companies.
In this case, everything was again resolved through Lagutina, Ilyashenko and Inna Yakushko, Director of the Audit Department of the Kyiv State Tax Service, who ensured tax optimization and conversion of funds for the Shkriblyak CHP.
Head of the Kyiv State Tax Service Zlata Lagutina registered more than 100 orders for inspections in the moratorium to continue to create nightmares for the capital’s business
After the moratorium on documentary and factual inspections was introduced by the draft law 3220 of March 17, 2020, from March 18 to May 18, 2020, strange things started happening at the Kyiv State Tax Service.
In one day, more than 100 orders for inspections were registered, which makes it possible to start them on March 17, 2020, before the legislative changes come into force.
This is a very strange situation, which can be explained by Zlata Lagutina, the acting head of the Kyiv State Tax Service. But the situation is not easy, with a possible corruption component.
It immediately becomes clear why the State Tax Service does not send its auditors to isolation — the audit at 6 Smelyanska Street will continue to check Kyiv companies.
Resume.
Zlata Lagutina is a member of the Shkrivlyak-Konenko organized crime group. She helps the “right” companies to evade taxes and receives interest from them. Proof of this is her fabulous wealth and millions of dollars. One can only wonder why NABU and law enforcement agencies did not realize this earlier.