Employees of the Economic Security Bureau of Ukraine reported the suspicion to the head of the company which seized the funds of the State Budget of Ukraine in particularly large amounts.

It was established that for a long time, the director, based on the results of financial and business transactions, submitted inaccurate information about the reimbursement of value added tax. The enterprise engaged in the import of consumer goods to the customs territory of Ukraine actually sold them for cash.

Subsequently, the director of the company, acting in violation of the requirements of the Tax Code of Ukraine, the Law of Ukraine "On Accounting and Financial Reporting in Ukraine", in the period from February to June, entered false information into official documents, using the company's electronic signature and submitted it to the State Department of the DPS in Lviv of the region documents that became the basis for the illegal return of the amounts of the budget VAT refund. In fact, the manager did not submit information about the sale of goods and the company's profit to the supervisory body. Thus, the Director of the company, following a prior collusion with a group of persons of several business entities, abusing his official position, made an illegal VAT refund.

By creating an artificial VAT tax credit, the company received an unjustified VAT refund and caused losses to the state in the amount of UAH 40 million.

During the conducted searches, the fact of the absence of the goods imported to Ukraine was revealed, and documents confirming the fact of illegal VAT reimbursement were seized.

The director of the company was notified of the suspicion of committing a criminal offence, provided for in Part 5 of Art. 27, Part 5 of Art. 191, Part 5 of Art. 27, Part 2 of Art. 28, Part 1 of Art. 366 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.

Pre-trial investigation of criminal proceedings on the grounds of an offence under Part 5 of Art. 27 part 5 of Art. 191 (assistance in misappropriation, embezzlement of property or taking possession of it by abuse of official position) Part 5 of Art. 27, Part 2 of Art. 28, Part 1 of Art. 366 (aiding and abetting by a group of persons in the preparation, issuance by an official of knowingly false official documents, entering knowingly false information into official documents) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine, carried out by the detectives of the main unit of detectives of the Security Intelligence Service under the procedural guidance of the Prosecutor General's Office.

We will remind you that since the beginning of the year, ESBU has advanced UAH 1.3 billion in illegal VAT refunds.