Journalist for the 1+1 TV channel Yevhen Plynsky published a text, in which the head of the State Customs Service of Ukraine, Maksym Nefyodov, was accused of covering up smuggling by his relatives. The text gained traction thanks to PR from Plynsky's former colleague, now a deputy of the “Servant of the People” faction, Oleksandr Dubinsky.
The scheme allegedly also involves the head of the tax service, Serhiy Verlanov.

Nefyodov himself believes this is an order from people who are facing dismissal due to his reform.
Maksym Nefyodov
head of the State Customs Service of UkraineI want to tell the authors of this trash that I find their attempts to distract me from work amusing. But you won't succeed. Next week we are appointing acting heads to register new regional customs offices. More than 500 people from the current leadership are facing dismissal. Many of these people are multimillionaires who are ready to pay a lot to stay in their chairs. Many of them serve the business of other multimillionaires. But the hour of change has come — and black PR will not stop me.
In June of this year, Maksym Nefyodov won the competition for the post of head of the State Customs Service and promised to carry out a large-scale reform. Previously, from 2015, he worked as deputy minister at the Ministry of Economic Development and launched the Prozorro system.