Questionable appointments: who is new head of ARMA?

After the well-known author of a book about herself, Olena Duma, was dismissed from her position as head of ARMA, Yaroslava Maksymenko was appointed to replace her.

And this raises a lot of questions.

Earlier, she headed the Property Policy and Sanctions Department of the Ministry of Economy when Yulia Svyrydenko was in charge of the ministry. So it is possible that Maksymenko is a person from the current prime minister's entourage.

If you look at her declaration, you can see that Yaroslava Maksymenko is the founder of the limited liability company "KRYMPROEKT-SERVICE", registered in the occupied Crimea. She founded it back in 2011, before the annexation. But only in 2020 did the process of liquidation of the company allegedly begin, which had been faithfully supporting the budget of the aggressor country all this time. To date, the status of the LLC has not changed. Moreover, it is likely that Yaroslava's relative, Yevhen Maksymenko, still holds the position of director in this company.

This naturally raises the question: how could a person with a business in the occupied Crimea pass all the checks and head the sanctions department of the Ministry of Economy, and now become the acting head of the ARMA?

There are other facts.

According to sources, Maksymenko was a corporate advisor to the former head of the State Property Fund, Dmytro Sennychenko. In March 2023, the NABU and the SAPO announced that Sennychenko headed a criminal organisation that seized more than UAH 500 million from "Odesa Port Plant" JSC and "United Mining and Chemical Company" JSC in 2019-2021.

In 2022, it was Maksymenko who joined the supervisory board of the "Odesa Port Plant". Later, the State Property Fund entrusted her with the functions of the head of the "United Mining and Chemical Company". It was only in 2023 that she was dismissed from these positions. Despite this, no suspicions have been brought against her.

Another detail: the declaration for 2024 states that Maksymenko received social payments, including IDP benefits. For the year, this amount was UAH 40,380. And this is despite the fact that her official salary in a public office was UAH 1,034,394, or UAH 86,199 per month.

To sum up

Today, the acting head of ARMA is a person who:

1. Has a business in the occupied Crimea;
2. She was a member of Dmytro Sennychenko's entourage, who was notified of being suspected of embezzlement;
3. Held positions in the governing bodies of companies that were the subject of investigations by the NABU and the SAPO.

There are a lot of "strange coincidences".

Therefore, the main question is: how could Yaroslava Maksymenko pass all the checks and become the acting head of the ARMA?

Oleksii Honcharenko, People's Deputy of Ukraine