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According to the Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine, bank employees and employees of tax authorities, including the former head of the State Tax Service, are involved in the operation of the large-scale conversion center.
The Security Service of Ukraine has liquidated a large-scale conversion center. On October 7, the Attorney General’s Office (UCP) reported on the matter.
“The operation of a large-scale conversion center with a turnover of more than 15 billion UAH was completed. Employees of banking institutions and tax authorities, notaries, as well as natural persons, in whose name legal entities with signs of fictitious, they participated in the operation of the conversion center, “says the message.
The SBU investigators found that in 2019-2020 the tax authorities “together with the participants of the transit conversion groups created an illegal mechanism for the illegal formation of VAT tax credit amounts to commercial entities of the real sector” .
“In particular, they interfered without authorization in the operation of an electronic software product, which caused a distortion of the information processing process and led to the unfounded formation of a VAT tax credit on a particularly large scale. More than 500 commercial entities were used by the people involved in the production, “said the UCP.
According to the ministry, the former head of the State Tax Service (STS) participates in the activities of the conversion center. It contributed to tax evasion on a particularly large scale “by exploiting the vulnerability of the GNS telecommunications and information systems, including by interfering with the automated follow-up of the risk assessment.”
During the searches, more than 600 stamps of legal persons with fictitious signs, offshore companies, notaries and facsimiles were found.
“Preliminarily, the actions of the defendants in the criminal process were qualified on the facts of abuse of power or official position; tax evasion; legalization of assets obtained by criminal means; unauthorized interference in the operation of computers, as well as the financing terrorism (Part 2 of Art. 364, Part 2 of Art. 3 Art. 212, part 3 of Art. 209, part 2 of Art. 361 and part 3 of Art. 258-5 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine) “, – explained in the Attorney General’s Office.
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