The Economic Security Bureau of Ukraine exposed a scheme of tax evasion of UAH 42.4 million by an agricultural company owned by a People's Deputy of the VII convocation, the owner of a number of well-known brands of dairy products.

According to the results of searches at four addresses in the administrative and office buildings of the agricultural private joint-stock company, including in the Kirovohrad region, financial and business documents that were used in the commission of a criminal offense and cash in the amount of more than UAH 7.8 million were seized.

Detectives of the ESBU established that officials of the mentioned company overstated the tax credit in value added tax declarations during 2021. This agricultural enterprise documented financial and economic transactions for the purchase of grain crops from economic entities with signs of "fictitiousness".

The use of such a scheme resulted in the actual non-receipt of funds in the amount of UAH 42.4 million to the State Budget of Ukraine.

The criminal scheme was exposed based on the results of the information and analytical activities of specialists of the Department of information analysis and risk management of the ESBU.

Pre-trial investigation in criminal proceedings on the facts of willful tax evasion in particularly large amounts, which is qualified under Part 3 of Art. 212 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine is carried out by detectives of the main detective unit of the Economic Security Bureau of Ukraine under the procedural guidance of prosecutors of the Prosecutor General's Office.

Note: in accordance with Art. 62 of the Constitution of Ukraine, a person is considered innocent of committing a crime and cannot be subjected to criminal punishment until his guilt is proven in a legal manner and established by a court verdict.

We will remind, recently detectives of the ESBU in Kyiv seized the company's corporate rights for non-payment of UAH 123 million in taxes.

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