The Office of the Prosecutor General, together with the Bureau of Economic Security of Ukraine, has completed the pre-trial investigation regarding a group of individuals who, by prior agreement, using the activities of a foreign non-resident company providing taxi services and bank accounts, as well as the details of an individual entrepreneur, developed an illegal scheme to evade tax payments in large amounts (part 3 of Article 212, parts 1 and 4 of Article 358 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine).

It has been established that the suspects, using the details and bank accounts of the individual entrepreneur they created, arranged for the provision of information and intermediary services on behalf of a well-known taxi network company, receiving funds in their bank accounts as income totaling over 214 million UAH. This income was intentionally not fully declared to the state tax authorities, which led to the non-payment of tax obligations for the single tax (third group) for the period from 2019 to 2022 in the amount of over 29 million UAH.

The pre-trial investigation in the specified criminal proceedings was conducted by detectives of the Main Detective Unit of the Bureau of Economic Security of Ukraine under the operational support of the Department of Strategic Investigations of the National Police of Ukraine.

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 guilty verdict.