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And here are the details of the mysterious Camry, full of cash, that the SBU Economic Security Bureau and the National Police detained in broad daylight in Kyiv.
It turns out the operation concerns a topic I've been writing about for several years: the activity of conversion centers and the legalization of criminal cash through fictitious agricultural export.
In its release, the SBU Economic Security Bureau writes about it directly:
“The scheme operated in the trade of agricultural products. They purchased it from producers for cash, not recording these transactions in accounting and tax records.
To later sell the goods in Ukraine or export them, the perpetrators prepared documents on behalf of controlled companies containing false information about the origin, value, and characteristics of the products.
In this way, the agricultural products were given a fictitious origin history, and the proceeds from their sale were channeled into the shadow economy. This allowed hiding actual income and reducing the amounts of taxes payable to the budget.
Part of the funds received were converted by the scheme’s participants into virtual assets, attempting to conceal their origin and avoid financial monitoring.”
About 60 companies operated in this group, turning over tens of billions of hryvnias. The detained car that drew public attention to the matter is just the tip of the iceberg.
I hope certain details of this organized criminal group's activities will also become public.
I'm also curious to learn about the role of the tax service in this story.
It simply cannot fail to see such large-scale fictitious activity. Conversion centers, which today operate in every business center in the capital, have historically been under the control of the State Tax Service.
And historically the State Tax Service does not see them.
