10:18 30.11.2016

BRSM-Nafta announces protest rallies over blocking filling station chain's operations by fiscal service

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KYIV. Nov 30 (Interfax-Ukraine) – The employees of the BRSM-Nafta filling station chain on November 30, 2016 starts mass protest rallies against actions of Ukraine's State Fiscal Service hindering the usual operations of the company, Director of the BRSM-Nafta Strategic Marketing Department Oleksandr Melnychuk said at a press conference at Interfax-Ukraine on Tuesday.

"Tomorrow over 1,200 employees will gather at a rally near Ukraine's Cabinet of Ministers. The two main demands are to stop an attempt to seize the private company with the help of the State Fiscal Service and… dismiss State Fiscal Service Head Roman Nasirov," he said.

He said that the company's employees would also go to Ukrainian Prosecutor General's Office where they are ready to present documents proving that Nasirov is implicated in blocking the chain's operations.

Melnychuk insists that the company has information that they want to nationalize it and then to resell it to the illegal seizers.

He said that the State Fiscal Service does not execute the court decisions ordering to unblock the operation of the chain, referring to the order of the top managers. He said that the company has decisions of five courts obliging the State Fiscal Service to return property seized during raids and making impossible the staying of its guard on the territory of the company.

Melnychuk believes that the companies are blocked systemically – one by one. Video recorders are seized during raids, photo and video recording is banned, safe boxes are seized, lawyers are beaten, he said.

Founder of State Oil company (managing company for BRSM-Nafta filling stations) Ihor Revko said that today there is no effective court ruling against the company confirming tax evasions or other unlawful actions.

Melnychuk said that today around 60 filling stations have been blocked. On November 28, 16 stations in Odesa, Vinnytsia and Dnipro were blocked. Around 100 filling stations were raided. One third out of 3,000 employees do not work now, while local budgets fell short of around UAH 5 million of taxes, he said.

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