As part of the criminal proceedings based on a court order detectives of the Economic Security Bureau are currently conducting searches in several regions of Ukraine. At the same time at the warehouses in Cherkasy region, employees of the plant on the instructions of their management, blocked the detectives' access to the warehouses and announced their intention to organise a rally.

Earlier the investigation established that the owner of the alcohol production plant also owns a company that sells it.

The officials of these companies organised a tax evasion scheme in 2021-2023.

In particular the alcohol sales company purchased not only alcohol of its own brands but also products of other manufacturers.

Later according to the documents this alcohol was sold to a related manufacturing company. The latter allegedly stored it in warehouses. The estimated value of such balances is UAH 1 billion.

However, according to the results of the inspections already carried out in the warehouses indicated by the plant's officials in the documents these inventory balances are absent. This indicates non-payment of VAT income tax and excise tax.

According to preliminary data the estimated amount of damage to the state budget over the three years is over UAH 120 million.

In addition to the absence of declared balances, several warehouses in Cherkasy region have been found to contain products of unknown origin. The warehouse employees refused to provide investigators with documents confirming that they had purchased the goods legally. According to a court order detectives are to seize the products. However, access to the warehouses is blocked by trucks.

Economic Security Bureau calls on all participants in the process to comply with the current legislation and protect their legitimate interests in the legal field.