The defendants in the case acted under the cover of law enforcement agencies. They created a tax evasion scheme.
In Ukraine, a criminal organization was exposed, due to which state activities suffered damage of more than UAH 2 billion. The Office of the Prosecutor General announced this on Friday, May 17.
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It is indicated that among the attackers are the beneficial owner of the coal enterprises, an administrator, a manager and an accountant of a business under his control.
“According to the investigation, the suspects, led by a coal businessman, acting under the cover of law enforcement agencies, developed a tax evasion scheme worth about UAH 1.2 billion. including a Rolls-Royce brand of car, worth 22 million UAH In total, they managed to legalize more than 991 million UAH.
In addition, the defendants in the case took advantage of the de facto control of the state-owned enterprise and entered into unfavorable contracts in advance and blocked the main business activity – coal mining.
“Through such actions, the suspects brought the business to sustainable financial disadvantage to further gain legal control,” the department said.
Law enforcement officers conducted a series of searches, discovered and seized items and documents that proved the illegal activities of the four defendants. They were all detained.
Detainees were informed of the suspicion of creating, leading and participating in a criminal organization, tax evasion on a particularly large scale, legalization of property obtained through crime and carrying a coal industry enterprise which is state property in a state of sustainable financial insolvency (Article 255 , Article 212, Art 209, Art 219 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine).
The question of what steps the suspect can take has been decided.
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Earlier on Friday, the media reported the detention of coal businessman Vitaly Kropachev. He is the actual owner of the LLC Krasnolimanskoepart of the LLC group of companies Ukrdoninvest.
Source: korrespondent
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