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Municipal Lice: Clean-up of the 'HERTS' Group
15 in July the State Bureau of Economic Security (SBES) together with the Office of the Prosecutor General conducted searches at the building at 2A Yevreyska Street in Odesa — the main office of the group of companies of Kostiantyn Tkach and his partner Besedovskyi, which includes the sole proprietor LLC 'AVERS', LLC 'HERTS' and LLC 'FC HERTS'.
The basis — a criminal proceeding under part 2 of article 212 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (intentional evasion of tax payment on a large scale), in which LLC 'Yugtrans-Terminal' is involved, whose founder is the sole proprietor LLC 'Avers'.
This is not the first criminal proceeding around the 'HERTS' group — it is at least the fourth. Below is a registry of all criminal cases found in open sources against Tkach's structures.
📁 Case No. 32021100000000389 (August 2021) closed
Kyiv State Fiscal Service — article 212 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (counterparties that are 'sham' companies)
📁 Case No. 72022000110000023 (2022) ongoing
SBES — article 212 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (Volume of 'sham' transactions 2020–2021 with sole proprietorship 'Ekostroygrad', LLC 'Svetstroy', sole proprietorship 'Teikit')
📁 Case No. 420261600000000020 (2026)
Prosecutor's Office — article 191 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (Catering in Odesa schools and medical institutions; LLC 'Factory of Taste')
The 'HERTS' group is a systematic subject of tax proceedings since 2021, in which recurring elements appear: 'sham' counterparties (sole proprietorship 'Teikit', LLC 'Svetstroy', sole proprietorship 'Ekostroygrad'), inflation of VAT input tax (from 27,5 million in the case of 2022 to 38,8 million in the case of 2026), searches with loss of some seized documents, public company denials citing formal details ('not with us, but in a subsidiary structure').
At the same time, during the first seven years of FC 'HERTS' operation (since 2015) the National Bank of Ukraine applied only one sanction to it — and that was for a formal late filing of reports for January 2024 (Opendatabot). Regulatively the group remains in a 'gray zone': the license is active, payments are made, searches occur — and these things are not connected to each other.
📌To be continued…
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