This was reported by the interim head of the State Tax Service Lesya Karnaukh.
“Detection of such a scheme took a lot of time. Its participants were very inventive in the ways of disguising offenses. Such concentration of management functions is atypical for real business and indicates signs of organized use of such persons as nominal managers,” reads the message.
According to the head of the Department, the relevant data were obtained by analyzing information from the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) on the violation of deadlines for settlements for the period from 2024. Most of the transactions amounted to the export of goods: 1,243 companies exported over UAH 176 billion, while 555 companies carried out import operations for over UAH 18 billion.
Lesya Karnaukh specified that 73% of the offending companies and 78% of the total volume of transactions are concentrated in seven regions: Odessa, Dnipropetrovsk, Lviv, Kharkiv, Kyiv, Zaporizhzhya regions and Kyiv. Tax officials have recorded mass re-registration of hundreds of companies to the same persons, use of common IP-addresses and mass registration addresses in Kiev and Lviv. In particular, 7 individuals were identified, each of whom is simultaneously the head or founder of more than 500 companies.
Based on the NBU data, the tax authorities have already conducted inspections and calculated more than UAH 70 billion of penalties for violation of currency legislation. The STS has submitted all collected materials to the Office of the Prosecutor General for legal evaluation. With regard to 557 business entities, the agency has already prepared analytical conclusions indicating violations of the law and signs of money laundering.
