Illegal withdrawal (misappropriation) of funds of the state enterprise totaling more than 523 million UAH was exposed

Press service of the State Tax Service of Ukraine, published 08 October 2020 at 12:52 Chapter: News

Tax specialists exposed illegal withdrawal (misappropriation) of funds of the state-owned enterprise that operated on the natural gas market.

During the analytical investigation, specialists of Large taxpayers office of the STS jointly with the Prosecutor’s General Office of Ukraine identified that officials of the enterprise, using mechanism of illegal transfer of funds from bank accounts, made a number of operations related to the purchase of natural gas.

Herewith, the contracting enterprises had all fictitiousness signs, ie they did not have the appropriate licenses or access to the Information Platform of the gas transmission system operator. Amount of legalized funds has amounted 523 million UAH.

Criminal proceeding was registered under Article 205-1 and Article 209 of the Criminal code of Ukraine based on the specified materials in the Unified register of pre-trial investigations.