Legalization of more than 72 million UAH of criminal proceeds by an individual was exposed

Press service of the State Tax Service of Ukraine, published 30 October 2020 at 13:13 Chapter: News

Tax specialists jointly with the Main Directorate of SFS in Kharkiv region working out materials of the State Financial Monitoring Service of Ukraine exposed conduction of financial operations of receiving more than 72 million UAH on the individual’s own payment cards from the third-party senders. Such operations were carried out by replenishing cards in cash or transferring from other payment cards.

It was detected that individual – citizen of Ukraine opened 10 card accounts after making a notification in the Unified State Register on the termination of his business activity. During the period from 2017 to 2019, more than 72 million UAH from a significant number of individuals were credited to them. At the same time, he did not provide property and income tax declarations for 2017 – 2019 and did not declare amount of income that is included in the total annual taxable income.

As follows, this individual – taxpayer is probably undeclared and unpaid personal income tax for 2017 – 2019 in the amount of 12.9 million UAH as a result of participation in financial operations that may be related to the legalization (laundering) of income received in a criminal way.

Based on these materials, the Investigative Department of the SFS in Kharkiv region registered criminal proceeding under Part 3 Article 212 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine in the Unified Register of pre-trial investigations.