Scheme of misappropriation of budget funds totaling more than 6 million UAH was exposed

Specialists of the State Tax Service of Ukraine jointly with Investigative department of the SFS in Zaporizhzhia region and the Security Service of Ukraine exposed scheme of illegal withdrawal of funds in the purchase of inventory.

Specialists of the Anti-money laundering department of Main Directorate of the STS in Zaporizhzhia region identified that enterprise allocated more than 100 million UAH for the purchase of services during 2018 – 2020. The winner of tender was the enterprise of Zaporizhzhia region, which involved subcontractors not only of the real sector of economy, but also companies with fictitiousness signs. That is, a part of work was actually performed and the rest of work existed only on paper.

Audit detected an unjustified overstatement of the production cost which caused budgetary losses in the form of non-payment of taxes totaling more than 6 million UAH.

Currently, there are ongoing investigative actions in the framework of criminal proceeding under Part 2 Article 364, Part 3 Article 212 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.