Detectives of the Bureau of Economic Security of Ukraine reported a new suspicion to the former Acting First Deputy Chairman of the Board of PJSC Ukrtatnafta Ruslan Lyapko, who is in custody, of deliberately evading another UAH 687 million in excise tax.

According to the investigation, in February 2022, officials of PJSC Ukrtatnafta sold the produced fuel, ignoring the norms of the law and independently determined the amount of tax liabilities for paying excise tax.

Also, the company's management did not file a declaration and did not pay the excise tax, as a result of which large-scale taxes were not paid to the state budget, despite the presence of a sufficient amount of funds on the accounts of PJSC " Thus, as of April 2, 2022, there was a debt to pay excise tax in the amount of more than UAH 687 million.

Subsequently, company officials sent letters to the State Tax Service of Ukraine and other state bodies with a statement about the impossibility of maintaining proper and accounting records “as a result of damage received during the armed aggression of the Russian Federation”.

The debt is also confirmed by the conclusion of the expert and the results of the forensic economic examination..

At the same time, officials used the same scheme before the war in January 2022. Then Ruslan Lyapko, together with the chief accountant, committed a violation of tax legislation and deliberately evaded paying excise tax for more than UAH 605 million in January 2022.

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Last September ZN. UA reported that NABU detectives conducted a search at Igor Kolomoisky, during which they seized documents, a gadget, and downloaded its contents. The search concerned the case of the seizure of property and funds of the Ukrnafta company for almost UAH 13 billion in 2015 prices..

At that moment, Igor Kolomoisky was not involved in this case as a defendant, he was not suspected. But he is a co-owner of Ukrnafta. And shortly before that, SAPO prosecutors and NABU detectives announced suspicions of financial fraud by a number of company officials.

In November 2022, by decree of President Volodymyr Zelensky, this enterprise was forcibly alienated from the owners in the interests of the state and placed under the control of the Ministry of Defense.

At the same time, the Supervisory Board of Ukrnafta included persons associated with the head of the presidential office, Andriy Yermak.. Sergey Koretsky was appointed head of Ukrnafta and Ukrtatnafta.

It should be noted that as of January 1, 2022, the company's tax debt amounted to about 2.9 billion. UAH.

Are there any chances for the investigation of cases around the companies of Igor Kolomoisky, in addition to the picture, to come up with results, analyzed for ZN. UA Igor Maskalevich in the article "