The largest state-owned companies - Naftogaz and Ukrzaliznytsia, whose founders are the Cabinet of Ministers, refused to publish information about the salaries of top managers, citing the war. This is reported by the Commander-in-Chief, who tried to find out information by sending appropriate requests..

Data on the meager, as for a leader of this level, salary of Alexei Chernyshev is monthly published on the Naftogaz website. There, for example, it is reported that in January-March Alexei Chernyshev received 151 thousand. UAH salary (on average - 50 thousand. UAH per month). For comparison, one of Chernyshev's predecessors, Andrei Kobolev, is now in the dock - the ex-head of Naftogaz is suspected of illegally obtaining almost 230 million. UAH. prizes.

In addition, payments to two members of the Supervisory Board of Naftogaz appeared in the March financial statements, though without names.. One of them was paid 93.5 thousand rubles for a week of work (from January 24 to January 31).. UAH remuneration. Another member of the Supervisory Board for February received 362.4 thousand. UAH.

This is where openness ends..

“Dissemination by the company of personalized information about wages, remuneration and other payments (by months) to directors and heads of departments of legal entities of the Naftogaz group will be considered a violation of a person’s right to personal and family life and his secret,” the state company explained..

However, Dejure fund lawyer Christina Burtnik noted that Naftogaz is a joint-stock company, the sole founder and shareholder of which is the state. Therefore, all funds invested and earned by this joint-stock company are the property of the state.

“According to this logic, the disposal of these funds, in particular the payment of wages and remunerations, is the disposal of budgetary funds. Therefore, it should be public information.. No one has the right to limit information, the openness of which is provided for by the law on access to public information, including by providing confidentiality conditions in employment contracts,” the lawyer believes..

Lawyer Dmitry Buzanov cites part 5 of Article 6 of the Law “On Access to Public Information”, which says that “access to information on the preparation, consideration and approval of budgets, estimates of budget funds managers and plans for the use of budget funds cannot be restricted”. According to Buzanov, wages or any remuneration stipulated by the agreements, not only of the heads of legal entities that are managers of budgetary funds, but also of all employees, is public information..

The lawyer also recalls the established jurisprudence on this issue.. In particular, back in 2016, the Plenum of the Supreme Administrative Court of Ukraine issued a resolution on the practice of applying the legislation on access to public information by administrative courts. It stated that information on the use of budgetary funds by legal entities financed from the state and local budgets is of public interest..

“Because a journalist is asking for information, it is likely that the information is of public interest.. Failure to provide a response to a request or provision of incomplete information is the basis for bringing to administrative responsibility under Article 212-3 of the Code of Ukraine on Administrative Offenses,” emphasized Dmitry Buzanov.

A similar request about the income of the head and members of the board of the company for 2022-2023 was sent to the joint-stock company "

The Department of Information Policy and Strategic Communications of Ukrzaliznytsia cited several laws and indicated that: “Disclosure of the information requested in the request may adversely affect the activities of the management of the company, which is involved in the process of stable operation of a critical infrastructure facility, and may also represent.

And we noticed that after martial law is lifted in the country, information about the earnings of the head and members of the board of Ukrzaliznytsia will appear on the company's website.

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Regarding the references to martial law, in connection with which the mentioned information is hidden, the lawyer stated that Ukrzaliznytsia, in violation of Article 22 of the law on access to public information, did not provide specific grounds for refusing to provide the requested information. Yevgeny Vorobyov noted that the Verkhovna Rada, which has the authority to impose restrictions during martial law, did not suspend the provisions of the law on access to public information.

“Clause 1 of part 1 of article 15 of this law at the time of refusal to provide information was not limited / stopped by the Verkhovna Rada. Therefore, the manager was obliged to publish the requested information. In addition, the information contained in the mentioned norm contains a presumption of unconditional openness, that is, the public interest always prevails,” the lawyer sums up..

Recall that when a public discussion broke out as to whether it was worth cutting the salaries of military personnel during the war, the government resorted to the usual "

At the same time, there are no statements from the authorities that considerable payments to the heads of state-owned companies will be reduced.. For example, the new director of Ukrnafta and Ukrtatnafta Serhiy Koretsky receives a monthly salary of 3.2 million. UAH. , and that's not counting the premium.. Another one million hryvnias each month receive two of his deputies.