Reasons for dismissal of Deputy Head Shurma from Ukrainian President’s Office revealed
Pravda Ukraine
Ukrainska Pravda has found out that Rostyslav Shurma, former Deputy Head of the Office of the President for Economic Affairs, has resigned from the Office after publications about a conflict of interest and some pressure from American officials.
Source: an article by Ukrainska Pravda
Details: Ukrainska Pravda noted that Shurma’s impending dismissal was first reported in the summer, but few people believed it then.
Quote from a source of Ukrainska Pravda in the Office: “Shurma would have continued to work. But his job is 90% negotiations. After the publications in the media, Rostyslav was no longer taken seriously by international partners. They simply refused to work with him. And this affects the entire work of the Office of the President.”
More details: The issue was with the alleged reimbursement of the “green tariff” to Shurma’s brother’s companies, and the National Anti-Corruption Prevention Agency’s protocol about a conflict of interest.
However, Ukrainska Pravda stressed that the last straw in Shurma’s career in the Office was President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s conversations with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in the spring and summer of 2024.
Quote from the source of Ukrainska Pravda: “The Americans were constantly pressuring us to dismiss Shurma and Oleh Tatarov. They said there was some kind of corruption and excessive influence. But they spoke without specifics, in general phrases like our activists do. Once they even threatened visa sanctions against them. Tatarov didn’t care, he was already staying away from the US. But Rostyslav was affected by this.”
Details: Shurma’s family lives abroad, and the business he and his brother run together is built internationally.
“US sanctions would be fatal for this way of life, so Zelenskyy agreed on 3 September to dismiss Shurma before he was ruined,” the article says.
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