By KYIV. May 13 (Interfax-Ukraine) – Some 158 trucks and bank accounts have been seized due to tax evasion by an enterprise whose ultimate beneficiary is a citizen of the Republic of Belarus, the Office of the Prosecutor General reports.
"Under the procedural guidance of the prosecutors of the Office of the Prosecutor General, within the framework of criminal proceedings, the court seized 158 vehicles worth more than UAH 200 million and bank accounts of the company," the prosecutor’s office said in a report posted on Telegram.
According to the prosecutor’s office, officials of the enterprise, the beneficial owner of which is a citizen of the Republic of Belarus, during 2021-2022, together with dealer enterprises, sold imported Belarusian-made automotive equipment without proper reflection of business transactions in accounting and tax accounting.
"Thus, the economic entities evaded paying taxes in the amount of more than UAH 10 million," the report says.
During the searches, according to the prosecutor’s office, vehicles and documentation were confiscated.
A pre-trial investigation into criminal proceedings on tax evasion (Part 3 of Article 212 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine) is carried out by investigators from the Bureau of Economic Security of Ukraine.
