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iPhones at $1000 margin exist — no results: how the BEB under Tsyvinsky and the customs again imitate the fight against smuggling
Smuggled iPhones 18 are already on open sale in the “#Ябко” chain a month before the official start at legal importers after 25.09. The margin is $1000 per unit, and clearly not for the army.
🤷♂️Meanwhile, the chair of the Rada’s financial committee, Danylo #Гетманцев, shrugs in his Telegram: #БЕБ had already “closed the case” against the smuggler store back in May.
A genre classic from the BEB team led by #Цивінський: showy mask-and-raid operations seizing equipment worth $100 millions took place, after which the business was simply “put on the meter.” ❗️Instead of real de-shadowing of the Apple market in Ukraine, where at least $2,5 billion worth of equipment is sold annually and up to 90% goes into the gray zone, we have a simulation of vigorous activity. The shadow model causes annual budget losses from smuggling alone of 25–30 billion UAH, plus 10–15 billion UAH is lost due to splitting businesses into over 150 sole proprietors, card transfers, cash and crypto.
While Ukrainians are being subjected to new fiscal nooses, the most profitable electronics live openly and with impunity.
📌We established that the cores of the “Yabko” network with over 110 stores and billion-hryvnia turnovers jabko.ua are controlled by #Димінський, #Кахнич and #Турковець, while marketing formally masks the operation under the sign of TOV “SPESHLTECH”. Over 90% of the money goes around the legal entity to accounts of nominee sole proprietors with non-fiscal receipts.
Over 2022–2024 years this produced at least 💰3,3 billion UAH of hidden turnover, which was converted and cashed out into crypto through TOV “EMERALD-TRADE”. Smuggling went through Poland, Hungary, Romania, Slovakia and Moldova from China, Hong Kong and Vietnam, undervaluing the goods and declaring smartphones as “electronic components” at customs — which is physically impossible without participation of customs officers and border guards.
Instead, the state gets laughable fines of 36 million UAH that Yabko is supposed to pay.
✅We did not stay silent: we filed 5 complaints and 5 criminal reports to 500+ addressees, secured 7 ERDR entries and over 24 rulings from investigative judges. The procedural trail runs through criminal proceedings opened on our materials, namely the Volyn regional prosecutor’s office No. 42025030000000029 (part 1 of art. 212 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine), Poltava regional prosecutor’s office No. 42025170000000021 (part 1 of art. 366 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine), Lviv regional prosecutor’s office No. 42025140000000035 (part 2 of art. 201-3, handled by the BEB regional department in Lviv region), Chernivtsi regional prosecutor’s office No. 42024260000000201 from 31.12.2024 (part 3 of art. 365 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine, entrusted to the DBR regional department in Khmelnytskyi) and Ivano-Frankivsk RUP GUNP No. 12024091010003168 from 28.12.2024 (part 2 of art. 190 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine).
Question to Tsyvinsky, the customs leadership and the Office of the Prosecutor General: why is a product with a thousand-dollar margin again being traded openly during the “scale de-shadowing”?
Materials on the topic:
▫️Tax indulgence from the BEB: how “Yabko” and “Marketopt” buy freedom while other top chains remain in the shadows
▫️Court defeats and billion-hryvnia shadows: how the Yabko network tries to wash its hands of the smuggling trail
▫️The Yabko network seems to have finally played its gray games with the state to the end
▫️$100 millions of devices and 3,3 billion hryvnias past the budget: what is the “Yabko” network hiding?
▫️Every year in Ukraine at least 2,5 billion dollars worth of Apple equipment is sold
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