Currently, the official salary of the head of the Financial Investigation Service (FIS) created in Ukraine is set at 40 subsistence minimums (62 thousand. UAH), and official salaries of ordinary detectives of the service - at the level of 20 subsistence minimums (32 thousand. UAH), writes in his article for ZN. UA Julia Samayeva.

According to her, it was the salaries of the employees of the SFR that became the subject of controversy when discussing the creation of a service in the Cabinet. On the one hand, for a country with an average ZP of 6000 UAH - impressive amounts. On the other hand, the employees of the service will investigate the abuse, in which we are talking about millions. To keep them at the rate of ordinary civil servants means to create own corruption risks.

"While the official salaries in the FIS are as follows: the head of the service has 40 subsistence minimums (64 thousand. UAH for today), zamov - 35 (56 thousand. ), Heads of territorial divisions - 30 (48 thousand. ), Senior detectives - 22 (35.2 thousand. ), Ordinary detectives - 20 (32 thousand. UAH). To the salary is traditionally added an extra charge for long service, additional payments for specials, ranks of civil servants and work that involves access to state secrets. An additional bonus will be medical insurance for employees: the state itself will pay 90% of the cost of the insurance policy to the workers of the FIS, and 70% to members of their families, "the author points out..

As noted in the commentary ZN. UA Minister of Finance Alexander Danilyuk, without high salaries in the service it will be impossible to attract qualified specialists.

"Without a normal salary it is impossible to attract qualified specialists who will work honestly and professionally and distinguish between GDP and VAT, and VAT from the EAF. Recently, we were told how an investigator of the tax police who investigated VAT evasion in a conversation with an attorney at the company found complete ignorance of what VAT. And when the lawyer drew attention to this, the investigator said that he does not care what VAT is, but still have to negotiate, "he said..

According to Danilyuk, according to the calculations of the Ministry of Finance, for the effective work of the Financial Research Service will require about 3 thousand employees.

"The number of employees will be determined by the Cabinet. According to our calculations, the service needs no more than 3.5 thousand. People, including administrative personnel, to work effectively, "the minister said..

The head of the Ministry of Finance also focused on the need to minimize the opportunities for ex-members of the tax police.

"They worked in a corrupt system and bring their habits with them. The criteria for selecting employees will be determined for each position. But there will be some general criteria - a certain level of literacy, erudition, special attention will be paid to the knowledge of foreign languages.

In the modern world, financial crimes are not confined to borders, and many enterprises conduct foreign economic activities, employees will need to read contracts, other documents and profile literature in a foreign language or communicate with law enforcement agencies from other countries, "the Finance Minister stressed..

Recall, on March 22, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine preliminarily approved a bill on the Financial Investigation Service (FIS).

For more details on the establishment of the Financial Investigation Service in Ukraine, see Yulia Samayeva's article "# My_financial_policy. By the way, whose? "In the weekly" Mirror of the Week. Ukraine".