Detectives of the Territorial Department of the Economic Security Bureau in Chernivtsi region served a notice of suspicion to an entrepreneur who evaded paying almost UAH 3.8 million in taxes over three years.

During the pre-trial investigation detectives found out that the Bukovina resident being a Group 2 individual entrepreneur (income should not exceed UAH 1.5 million), declared income of more than UAH 4.5 million. At the same time he received 700 thousand euros through ATMs and cash desks to his account in Romania, which is more than UAH 21 million at the exchange rate of the National Bank of Ukraine.

At the request of the Romanian bank to provide information on the origin of the funds, the entrepreneur said that the investments were income from personal activities. Later funds totaling EUR 700 thousand were transferred from the account to purchase goods. At the same time taxes were not paid on almost UAH 20 million.

During the pre-trial investigation in order to confirm or refute the violations the analysts of the Territorial Department created an analytical product and found that the entrepreneur failed to declare income in the amount of UAH 19.6 million. Thus, the man evaded paying UAH 3.5 million in taxes and UAH 294 thousand in military duty.

The detectives of the Territorial Department of the Economic Security Bureau in Chernivtsi region served the entrepreneur a notice of suspicion of committing a crime under Part 1 Art. 212 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (intentional tax evasion, duties (mandatory payments).