Tax specialists exposed export scheme of agricultural products of dubious origin

Press service of the State Tax Service of Ukraine, published 01 December 2020 at 13:52 Chapter: News

Tax specialists analyzing activities of economic entities involved in foreign economic activity exposed facts of dubious export operations of agricultural products of unknown origin for a total amount of 480 million UAH.

Specialists of Anti-money laundering department of the STS in Dnipropetrovsk region found out that officials of a number of related companies used illicit scheme to export agricultural products without confirming their actual purchase. For this purpose, knowingly unreliable information was entered into the official documents. Moreover during 2020 these individuals did not submit tax declarations to the supervisory authority.

In addition during 2019 the specified officials documented a part of products from a number of enterprises with existing fictitiousness signs, activities of which are characterized by the mismatch of purchased and sold products.

Materials of the analytical research were sent to the law enforcement agencies that initiated a pre-trial investigation of criminal proceeding under Part 2 Article 366 of the Criminal code of Ukraine. Investigation is currently ongoing.

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