STS congratulates officers of the special unit of operational support of ATO and JFO zone with anniversary
Press service of the State Tax Service of Ukraine , published 30 January 2020 at 16:42 Chapter: News
Today is the day of 5th anniversary since the creation of the Special tax police unit in area of the Joint Forces Operation (known as “Phantom”) which protects economic interests of Ukraine along the demarcation line within Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
State Tax Service congratulates everyone involved!
Tax police officers involved in the Joint Forces Operation service in combat atmosphere at the controlling entry-exit checkpoints and across the demarcation line. Task of these units is to stop illegal turnover of products, vehicles and goods.
During this time, one third of the tax police personnel were serving in the Special Forces: 1 471 officers, including 41 women.
Over specified 5 year term more than 8 million 700 thousand vehicles have been inspected, during which 9 thousand 572 attempts of illegal transportation of products (goods) across the demarcation line have been prevented at the controlling entry-exit checkpoints in Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
6122 cases of administrative violations have been exposed, 389 criminal proceedings have been entered in the Unified register of pre-trial investigations, commodity-material values for more than 1 billion UAH have been seized from illicit turnover and 123 attempts on transportation of significant amounts of cash totaling 210 million UAH across the demarcation line have been prevented.
Thank you for your service! Come back alive!