“The DPS helped to expose the legalization of the income of the interregional drug carrier – the Kravchenko tax service helped to expose the interregional drug cartel, which laundered 18 million UAH through the Drop network every month. Criminals used more than a thousand false persons to transfer funds to cryptocurrency.”, – WRITE ON: Unn.ua
With the assistance of the State Tax Service of Ukraine, law enforcement officers found a group that was involved in the legalization of drug syndicate income with a monthly turnover of 18 million UAH. More than a thousand so -called “drops” – persons who transferred access to their bank accounts for shadow transactions were attracted to the laundering network
According to him, it was found that the participants of the scheme created a network of false persons who provided their data for opening accounts and created personal offices in mobile applications. The accounts of these citizens received profits from the illegal sale of raw materials for the manufacture of amphetamine. As a result, more than two hundred million hryvnias were withdrawn from their accounts a year for two deposit cryptomamen, which were then discussed in Cyprus.
“According to the results of the analysis of the Department of Prevention of Financial Operations, related to the legalization of income obtained by the DPS, law enforcement officers revealed ways and mechanisms of legalization of funds obtained illegally, identified the persons involved and their role in the scheme,” Kravchenko said.
The head of the STS noted that the police conducted an operation to eliminate the criminal organization. Some of the persons involved are held accountable for the legalization (laundering) of property obtained by crime (Part 3 of Article 209 of the Criminal Code).
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In his evening address, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky told what the results were achieved after changing the management of the State Tax Service and the State Financial Monitoring Service.