Ihor Umansky

Ihor Ivanovych Umansky (; born 9 January 1975 ) is a Ukrainian economist and civil servant. On 4 March 2020, he was appointed as the Minister of Finance of Ukraine. He was dismissed on 30 March 2020. Umansky claims he never received a formal reason for his dismissal and that he first heard of it through news reports.

Biography Umanskyi was born on 9 January 1975 in the city of Pripyat, which was then part of the Ukrainian SSR in the Soviet Union. In 1997, Umansky graduated from Kyiv National Economic University.

After graduating in 1997, he began working within the Department of Infrastructure of Investment Activities and International Investment Cooperation for the National Agency of Ukraine for Development and European Integration.

From 2016 to 2019, Umansky was an adviser to the President of Ukraine.

After his term as Minister of Finance, he alleged there was massive VAT fraud in Ukraine, to which a Temporary Investigative Commission of the Verkhovna Rada was launched. The commission concluded that Ukraine was losing about 2.5 billion UAH every month due to fradulent VAT-credit scenes. He also later in 2021 alleged that a "road of construction cartel" was stealing billion from Ukraine's COVID-19 fund through manipulated road-building contracts.