The Odesa Regional Prosecutor's Office has sent an indictment to the court against the director of a company for intentional tax evasion in particularly large amounts (Part 3 of Article 212 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine).

According to the investigation, the company was engaged in wholesale trade of agricultural products. Its director deliberately did not declare in the tax report for the first half of this year soybeans amounting to nearly 5400 tons.

The products were supposed to be exported by sea to the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire in West Africa.

In fact, the sales volumes and profits of the company were significantly higher than officially stated in the declaration. Accordingly, the taxes should have been higher as well.

As a result of the entrepreneur's illegal actions, the state could have lost almost 15 million UAH in taxes.

As part of the pre-trial investigation, truthful data has already been entered into the tax declaration, and the entrepreneur has paid the specified amount of unpaid taxes to the state budget.

The pre-trial investigation in the criminal proceedings was conducted by the Territorial Administration of the Bureau of Economic Security in the Odesa region.

Note: According to Article 62 of the Constitution of Ukraine, a person is presumed innocent of committing a crime and cannot be subjected to criminal punishment until their guilt is proven in a lawful manner and established by a court verdict.