STS compiled 1 398 analytical materials as results of cooperation with the law enforcement agencies

Press service of the State Tax Service of Ukraine, published 02 December 2020 at 19:49 Chapter: News

Given the audit moratorium, the State Tax Service has improved mechanisms for working out tax evasion schemes in cooperation with the law enforcement agencies.

Anti-money laundering units have compiled 1398 analytical materials since the beginning of 2020. According to consideration results of these materials by the law enforcement agencies, the number of 324 criminal violations was registered (opened) and 755 materials were attached to criminal proceedings.

Analytical researches specifically concerned processing of information regarding business entities that carry out doubtful export operations, suspicious operations with the securities transferred in within limit of activities of the Temporary Commission of Inquiry, operational testing of the tax credit scheme and others.

In particular, information on the commission of criminal violations was entered into the Unified register of pre-trial investigations:

- 64 under Article 209 of the Criminal Code (total amount of detected legalized income, according to the compiled materials is more than 2 billion UAH);

- 101 under Article 212 of the Criminal Code (amount of established losses is almost 2.4 billion UAH);

- 159 for other predicate crimes (amount of established losses is 2.9 billion UAH).

Also, 755 materials were attached to criminal proceedings based on the following grounds:

219 under Article 209 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (total amount of detected legalized income, according to the compiled materials is 10.2 billion UAH);

157 under Article 212 of the Criminal Code (amount of established losses is 5.4 billion UAH);

397 for other predicate crimes (amount of established losses is more than 19 billion UAH).

Anti-money laundering units in cooperation with Tax audit unit conducted work on the formation and transfer of analytical materials to the law enforcement agencies, in relation to business entities that are likely to evade taxes and / or money-laundering through the formation of tax credit scheme.

94 analytical materials with probable signs prescribed in Article 212, 209, 366 and others of the Criminal Code of Ukraine for the total amount of losses over 7.5 billion UAH were transferred to the law enforcement agencies.

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