Detectives of the Territorial Department of the Economic Security Bureau in Kyiv have completed a pre-trial investigation on the grounds of deliberate excise and value added tax evasion. The amount of damage caused to the state is over UAH 17 million.

The investigation established that in 2019 the head of the company entered into an agreement with a European company for the supply of aviation fuel. As a result, the offender used forged documents and provided false information that the recipient of this fuel was a supply company of the State reserve agency of Ukraine. Thus the official's actions led to the actual non-receipt of funds to the state budget in particularly large amounts.

As part of the criminal proceedings, the ESBU seized the person's property worth over UAH 5 million and imposed a bail of UAH 214 thousand on the suspect. The case was sent to court.

To compensate for the losses caused to the state, the prosecutor filed a civil claim in the criminal proceedings in the amount of UAH 17 million.

Pre-trial investigation in the criminal proceedings under Part 3 of Art. 212 (Tax evasion, duties (mandatory payments)), Part 1 of Art. 366 (Forgery in office) and Part 4 of Article 358 (Forgery of documents, seals, stamps and forms, sale or use of forged documents, seals, stamps) were conducted by detectives of the Territorial Department of the ESBU in Kyiv under the supervision of prosecutors of the Kyiv city Prosecutor's Office and operational support of the Security Service of Ukraine.