In Kharkiv region, an agricultural enterprise official will be tried for failure to pay over 73 million hryvnia in taxes
In the Kharkiv region, an official of one of the agricultural enterprises will appear in court, accused of evading taxes by more than 73 million hryvnias. This was reported by the Prosecutor General’s Office.
Prosecutors of the Kharkiv Regional Prosecutor’s Office have sent an indictment to the court against the executive director of a private agricultural enterprise. He is charged with intentional tax evasion, which resulted in the non-receipt of significant funds to the state budget in particularly large amounts (Part 3 of Article 212 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine).
The investigation established that the official organized a scheme to evade payment of value-added tax. According to the case materials, during 2021–2022, the company officially purchased more than 20 thousand tons of sugar for a total amount of more than 439 million hryvnias, of which more than 73 million was VAT. However, tax invoices for the sale of this product were not issued, and there is no data on its sale in the accounting documents.
Investigators found out that the company actually sold sugar to buyers for cash, without keeping records and without documentary confirmation of financial transactions. During the searches, it was found that the company did not even have warehouses to store such a large amount of sugar, which it supposedly purchased officially.
Such actions led to evasion of value-added tax and caused losses to the state in particularly large amounts. The indictment has already been submitted to the court.
The discovery and documentation of illegal activities were carried out jointly with detectives of the Territorial Department of the Bureau of Economic Security in Poltava region and employees of the Department of the Security Service of Ukraine in Kharkiv region.
