The perpetrator, a 50-year-old resident of Lviv Oblast, was exposed by the employees of the Department of Investigation of Particularly Serious Crimes of the Investigative Department of the Lviv Oblast Police together with operatives of the Office of the Security Service of Ukraine in Lviv Oblast, under the procedural guidance of the Lviv Oblast Prosecutor’s Office.
It was established that the director of the enterprise (she is also the chief accountant) illegally created a tax credit from the value added tax, as a result of which she did not pay the state budget the total amount of more than 3.2 million hryvnias.
During the authorized searches, law enforcement officers seized draft accounting and records, computer equipment, databases, tax invoices, several dozen seals of economic entities and other material evidence.
The investigators informed the perpetrator that she was suspected of committing a criminal offense provided for in Part 1 of Article 212 (Evasion of payment of taxes, fees (mandatory payments)) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. The sanction of the article provides for punishment – a fine of five thousand to ten thousand non-taxable minimum incomes of citizens with deprivation of the right to hold certain positions or engage in certain activities for a period of up to three years or without such.
The pre-trial investigation is ongoing, the question of choosing a preventive measure for the suspect and imposing an arrest on the property is being resolved.
Communications Department of the Lviv Oblast Police