The ESBU served a notice of suspicion to the director of an LLC for evading import duties and VAT amounting to over 9.8 million UAH

 Detectives from the Main Detective Unit of the Economic Security Bureau of Ukraine have exposed the head of a company that organized a scheme to evade payment of import duties and value-added tax (VAT). As a result, the budget lost over 9.8 million UAH.

The pre-trial investigation was initiated based on an analytical product compiled by BES specialists.

The investigation established that the director of the LLC entered into a purchase and sale agreement with a Malaysian company, the alleged manufacturer of metal products. These goods are subject to dumping measures, and anti-dumping duties are applied to them. Accordingly, when importing them, certificates of origin must be provided to the customs authorities.

To reduce the amount of customs payments, the company's director used forged certificates allegedly from the Malaysian Chamber of Commerce and Industry. She also prepared other documents with the forged seal imprints and signature of the Malaysian company, which were falsified using computer graphics. Based on these documents, the customs broker, unaware of the director's intentions, submitted the cargo customs declarations for import clearance.

Thus, the company unlawfully applied an exemption from paying anti-dumping duty during the goods clearance and avoided paying VAT. The total amount of unpaid taxes exceeds 9.8 million UAH.

The ESBU detectives served the company director with a notice of suspicion under Part 3 of Article 212 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (intentional evasion of taxes on a particularly large scale).

Procedural guidance is being carried out by the Office of the Prosecutor General.

Operational support is provided by the Department of Detectives for the Strategic Protection of the Economy of the Economic Security Bureau of Ukraine.