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The head of an oil refining company was notified of the suspicion for evading the payment of UAH 605.9 million in excise tax
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02 February 2023
16:47
A detectives of the Economic Security Bureau of Ukraine reported the suspicion to the acting First Deputy Chairman of the Management Board of the oil refining company. More than 43% of the company's assets belong to the state. The official is suspected of deliberately evading paying taxes in particularly large amounts, a preventive measure was chosen for him in the form of a bond of almost UAH 200 million.
The investigation established that in January 2022, the company's officials declared an excise tax payable by the oil refining enterprise with a payment deadline of March 2, 2022. However, they deliberately did not transfer UAH 605.9 million of tax to the state budget.
At present, authorized searches are ongoing at the addresses of storage of fuel and lubricants of the oil refining company, other episodes of criminal activity of officials of this and other enterprises of the oil refining industry are being investigated. ESBU is also investigating the facts of misappropriation and embezzlement of fuel and lubricants with an estimated value of UAH 40 billion by the former management of the country's two largest oil companies - Ukrnafta and Ukrtatnafta.
Pre-trial investigation in criminal proceedings on the grounds of a criminal offense provided for in Part 3 of Art. 212 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (deliberate evasion of the payment of value-added tax, duties, which led to the actual non-payment of funds to the state budget in particularly large amounts) is carried out by detectives of the Economic Security Bureau of Ukraine under the procedural guidance of prosecutors of the Prosecutor General's Office.
We will remind you that the ESBU and the SSU exposed the embezzlement schemes of UAH 40 billion by the former management of Ukrnafta and Ukrtatnafta.
Note: in accordance with Art. 62 of the Constitution of Ukraine, a person is considered innocent of committing a crime and cannot be subjected to criminal punishment until his guilt is proven in a legal manner and established by a court verdict.
