Detectives of the Territorial Department of the Economic Security Bureau in Odesa region served a notice of suspicion to the organizer of a criminal group and its members of tax evasion on a particularly large scale. It was established that officials of a company engaged in the construction of residential and non-residential buildings failed to pay value added tax. Such actions caused losses to the state budget in the amount of over UAH 82 million.

Analysts of the Territorial Department ESBU in Odesa region found that officials of the company did not reflect the amount of funds for construction work received from utilities of the Odesa city council in the period from May 2018 to October 2022. Such actions resulted in non-payment of value added tax to the state budget totaling over UAH 82 million.

In order to compensate for the damage caused to the state, the Kyiv district court of Odesa seized 17 properties of the defendants worth UAH 72 million.

Currently, the organizer of the criminal group was served a notice of suspicion of committing criminal offenses under Part 3 of Art. 212 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (Intentional evasion of taxes, duties (mandatory payments) and Part 3 of Art. 209 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (Legalization (laundering) of the proceeds of crime). The former and current directors and two accountants of the company were served a notice of suspicion under Part 3 of Art. 212 (Intentional tax evasion), Part 1 of Art. 366 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (Preparation and issuance of knowingly false official documents by an official, entering knowingly false information into official documents).

The pre-trial investigation in the criminal proceedings is being conducted by detectives of the Territorial Department of the Economic Security Bureau in Odesa region with the operational support of the SSU Department in Odesa region, assistance of the Main department of the State Tax Service of Ukraine in Odesa region and procedural guidance of prosecutors of the Odesa region Prosecutor's Office.