“The Bureau of Economic Security exposed a group of companies that avoided paying UAH 30 million in income tax.”, — write: epravda.com.ua
The Bureau of Economic Security exposed a group of companies that avoided paying UAH 30 million in income tax. This was reported by the BEB press service. The investigation does not name the persons involved in the case. According to the EP, it is about companies, in particular about the Odesa terminal “Olympex Kupe”, which is connected to the sanctioned “king of smuggling” Vadym Alperin. The terminal appears in the scheme of illegal export of “black grain”. As BEB notes, enterprises specialize in storage and loading of agricultural products. They are part of a holding company that is a resident of the UAE and is involved in a number of criminal proceedings and court cases related to non-transparent activities and non-payment of payables to US investment funds, says the BEB message.Advertisement: Company officials deliberately understate the tax base, the investigation says. In particular, according to tax reporting, the cost of their cargo transshipment services is UAH 200-300 per ton, while the average market value of similar work in Ukraine is UAH 800. Non-residents transferred the difference between the market value of services and the value reflected in the company’s tax returns to controlled enterprises. In the future, the unaccounted profit was returned to the country with the help of illegal cash dispensing points. In this way, only in 2023-2024, the holding’s enterprises evaded payment of UAH 30 million in income tax, said BEB. Advertising: During searches on the territory of the grain terminal, detectives seized documentation “that has signs of forgery and concerns the origin, transshipment and export agricultural products”. BEB reported that officials and representatives of the mentioned companies oppose the searches in every possible way, refuse to provide the requested information and documents, block the premises and try to hide physical evidence. Currently, the full range of persons involved in illegal activities is being established, “among them is a well-known under-sanctioned smuggler,” the report says. BEB reminded that earlier the High Court of England, in order to prevent the waste of property of foreign investors, issued an order on the worldwide seizure of assets against the actual owners of the holding. However, in order to avoid confiscation, they created another company to re-register the production facilities and equipment of the grain terminal and continued their illegal activities. We will remind: the Bureau of Economic Security of Ukraine exposed one of the enterprises of the Kyiv region, which illegally produced and sold ethyl alcohol on an industrial scale.