In Ukraine, more than 50 thousand individual entrepreneurs are involved in illegal schemes: BEB

There are currently more than 50,000 individual entrepreneurs involved in illegal financial schemes operating in Ukraine. About this stated Oleksandr Tkachuk, head of the main detective division of the Bureau of Economic Security.

“These are mostly young people, i.e. students, who provide their electronic keys for opening bank accounts for a fee. Their use in combination with the use of personal data of the owners can reduce the payment of taxes by enterprises of the real sector of the economy by approximately UAH 70 billion annually. We already have joint positive developments in this area, so we would like to scale them up. The creation of the Center for Combating Tax Offenses will allow this to be done and implemented financial and tax monitoring of enterprises to increase the efficiency of our work”, he explained.

At the same time acting Serhiy Perhun, director of the BEB, noted that within the framework of the criminal proceedings conducted by the Bureau, according to the decisions of the State Financial Monitoring Service, almost 30 million hryvnias were frozen in the accounts of enterprises with signs of fictitiousness only during the current year.

He proposed the creation of a Center for Combating Tax Offenses. Such a structure will operate with the participation of the BEB, the State Tax Service and the State Financial Monitoring Service, with the aim of preventing schemes of using FOPs for tax evasion and transferring funds into cash.