Національне антикорупційне бюро та Спеціалізована антикорупційна прокуратура звинуватили Гетманцева у спотворенні фактів та розповсюдженні неправдивих відомостей стосовно їхньої діяльності у 2025 році.
The Bureau of Economic Security has called criticism from the head of the tax committee, Danylo Hetmantsev, regarding inflated figures for compensation of damages as false. The BES explained that UAH 3.82 billion reflects amounts in completed cases, not actual receipts for the year.
The Bureau of Economic Security of Ukraine has responded to criticism of its 2025 report, which was voiced during a meeting of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Finance, Tax, and Customs Policy. In response to a request from UNN, the BES stated that the claims by committee chairman Danylo Hetmantsev regarding the inaccuracy of the indicators presented in the report are based on a misinterpretation of statistical data, and the information about allegedly inflated work results for the past year is false.
The essence of the claims against the BES report
During the review of the BES report for 2025, the chairman of the parliamentary tax committee, Danylo Hetmantsev, questioned the reliability of certain indicators provided by the law enforcement agency. Specifically, the indicator for compensated damages in the amount of UAH 3.82 billion was discussed.
“You won’t let me lie, as one of the first to publicly express my sincere gratitude on my channel, BES, if something positive happens. But if you publish, announce inaccurate data, you discredit yourself, us, and our entire cause. This cannot be. Look, you stated in the report that according to the results of 2025, damages to the state were compensated with money, you just confirmed this, in the amount of 3.8 billion hryvnias. An analysis conducted by us, based on the information you provided us, indicates that 2.8-2.9 billion hryvnias is not from 2025 at all. It’s from 2022 to 2024. Why are you writing inaccurate data in the BES report?” Hetmantsev asked the Director of BES, Oleksandr Tsyvinskyi, but this question remained unanswered.
The head of the tax committee emphasized that his conclusions are based not on assumptions but on an analysis of specific payment orders indicating the dates of payments.
According to him, if only actual receipts for 2025 to the relevant budget accounts are considered, the amount of compensation is only about UAH 47 million, not UAH 3.8 billion.
What the BES says
In response to the UNN request, the Bureau of Economic Security stated that Hetmantsev’s criticism is based on mixing statistical categories with different meanings.
“Regarding the information about the alleged inaccuracy of the data in the Report, we note that such a statement is based on a misinterpretation of the procedure for forming statistical reporting and mixing indicators with different meanings,” the BES noted.
The agency also directly stated that Hetmantsev’s information that the actual volume of compensated damages was only UAH 47 million is untrue.
“The information provided in the Request about the alleged compensation of only 47 million hryvnias is untrue and false,” the BES emphasized.
The BES noted that the indicator of compensated damages is formed in accordance with the requirements of the Criminal Procedure Code and the procedure for maintaining the Unified Register of Pre-trial Investigations.
According to the agency, the statistics include amounts of compensation in criminal proceedings that were completed in the relevant reporting year, regardless of when exactly the funds were paid.
“It should be emphasized that the statistical indicator of compensated damages is not an indicator of actual fund inflows to the budget within a specific calendar year. Information on compensated damages is entered into statistical reporting after the completion of criminal proceedings and the adoption of a final procedural decision. Therefore, funds may have been actually paid in previous years but are reflected in the statistical reporting of the year in which the relevant pre-trial investigation was completed,” the BES explained.
That is why, the Bureau points out, the figure of UAH 3.82 billion reflects the amounts of compensation in cases completed in 2025, not the inflow of funds to the state budget during that calendar year.
The BES believes that the head of the parliamentary tax committee, Danylo Hetmantsev, is substituting concepts.
“The claims that the BES allegedly ‘inflated’ or ‘attributed’ compensation figures to themselves are untrue. In fact, there is a substitution of concepts, when a statistical indicator of completed criminal proceedings is mistakenly compared with periods of individual payments,” the agency stated.
The BES emphasized that the report was prepared by authorized structural units of the law enforcement agency within their competence and that there were no manipulations with the indicators.
Recall
After reviewing the 2025 report, the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Finance, Tax, and Customs Policy adopted a decision in which it criticized the work of the BES and provided the law enforcement agency with a number of recommendations.
The members of the parliamentary committee were dissatisfied not only with the quality of reporting, but also with certain indicators that raised doubts about their reliability. The deputies noted the low effectiveness of the BES’s work, stating that out of almost 6.9 thousand criminal proceedings investigated by the BES in 2025, suspicions were announced in only 12.9% of cases, and 13.1% of cases, or 904 criminal proceedings, were sent to court.
In addition, the effectiveness of some departments, according to the committee members, cannot be assessed at all.
Джерело: unn.ua