The well-known medical chain Eskulab has suspended the operation of 26 laboratories due to an internal conflict between the company’s co-owners.
This was reported by Channel 24.
According to the medical director of the chain, one of the co-owners of the brand, Serhiy Dyadyushko, his colleagues Denys Melnyk and Stanislav Luhovskyi, along with the software administrator Ihor Malinovsky, are carrying out illegal actions to gain full control over the company.
“Their actions are aimed at gaining control over Eskulab in order to gain full access to its financial flows, for their further channeling into their own hands, outside the official accounting and without paying taxes,” says Diadiushko.
He also claims that other co-owners offered to spend a significant portion of the funds outside the cash register and distribute them without paying taxes, but he did not agree to this, which is why he was subjected to raider attacks aimed at artificially excluding him from the company.
Forced to resign from his position as director, Dyadyushko appealed to law enforcement agencies and is preparing an appeal to the court.
According to Dyadyushko, Melnyk and Luhovskyi jointly withdraw cash from the company without paying taxes every month in the amount of about UAH 20 million.
In 2023, a conflict arose between the co-founders of the Eskulab network when Luhovskyi and Melnyk attempted to re-register Diadiushko’s share and exclude him from the network.
Eskulab Medical Laboratory is one of the three largest private laboratories in Ukraine, contracted by the National Health Service of Ukraine (NHSU). The network consists of five laboratory centers and 180 sample collection points in the western regions of Ukraine and Kyiv.
In 2023, Eskulab paid UAH 33.8 million in taxes, including UAH 14.97 million in unified social tax, UAH 1.33 million in military duty, and UAH 14.034 million in personal income tax. It is one of the ten largest taxpayers in Lviv region.