Fictitious reform. How Yuriy Bolokhovets, Director of the State Enterprise “Forests of Ukraine,” led corruption and illegal logging in forestry
In April 2023, Yuriy Bolokhovets was dismissed from the post of Head of the State Forestry Agency due to large-scale corruption fraud worth hundreds of billions of hryvnias, but in May 2023 he headed a new structure that united all forestry enterprises in Ukraine. Bolokhovets, with the help of his family, created a farm with a land bank of more than 1900 hectares, including land with a protected status. Thanks to Bolokhovets's protection, corrupt officials Yuriy Soyma, Vasyl Ivanina, Ruslan Sodolinsky and the head of the Transcarpathian Forestry and Hunting Department, Viktoriia Bilousova, were appointed as heads of forestry enterprises.