Detectives of the Territorial Department of the ESBU in Odesa region secured compensation for damages caused to the state in the amount of about UAH 8.7 million.

The investigation established that the officials of the company engaged in the construction of luxury real estate understated the income received from business activities during 2018-2019. In this way they deliberately evaded payment of value added tax and income tax in particularly large amounts. The damage to the budget amounted to about UAH 8.7 million.

Employees of the ESBU established that the mentioned company actually belongs to one of the deputies of the Odesa city council. As reported, in the course of previously carried out searches documents were found confirming that the deputy's company carried out economic activities in the temporarily occupied Crimea under the legislation of the aggressor country of the russian federation.

In addition, as a result of searches 125 seals of controlled companies were discovered and seized including 15 seals of non-resident enterprises, primary financial and business documents and other controlled enterprises, draft records.

The director of the mentioned enterprise was notified of the suspicion of committing a criminal offense, provided for in Part 3 of Art. 212 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (evasion of payment of taxes, fees). The indictment was sent to the court.

With the aim of getting the funds to the state budget as soon as possible ESBU ensured full compensation for the losses caused to the state.

The pre-trial investigation in criminal proceedings on the grounds of a criminal offense provided for in Part 3 of Article 212 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (deliberate evasion of the payment of value-added tax, customs duties which led to the actual non-payment of funds to the state budget) is carried out by detectives of the Territorial Department of the ESBU in the Odesa region under the procedural guidance of the prosecutors of the Odesa regional prosecutor's office.

We will remind, recently the detectives of the Economic Security Bureau of Ukraine stopped the underground industrial production of tobacco products.