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Controversial cash-out operator Yevhen Pulia increases cash-out volumes
Controversial and one of Ukraine’s largest cash-out operators, Yevhen Pulia, is expanding his illegal activities.
Previously Pulia was one of the financial wallets of Volodymyr Groysman. After the change of power he increased his influence. He has now actively expanded his operations in the Kherson region, where the head of the tax service was appointed his long-time acquaintance Ihor Klym. Only the lazy don’t talk about the activities of cash-out centers in the Kherson region after Klym’s appointment. However, there has been no reaction from the leadership of the tax service. It’s not surprising, since it was Yevhen Pulia who bought the position for Klym from Acting Head of the State Tax Service Yevhen Oleinikov. For two years Oleinikov has been overseeing the work of the cash-out centers. It is Oleinikov and Liubchenko who receive a cut from the activities of cash-out centers across the country.
After the National Security and Defense Council imposed sanctions against the largest smugglers in Ukraine, Pulia became very worried that he could be next. It was in the spring that he began buying commissioned interviews claiming that he supposedly had no connection to cash-out, and that these were just malicious rumors. He began to spin tales that he was allegedly investing in a nanotechnology startup developing a quantum helmet for medical use. In practice it turned out that he opened an elite medical center, Medeus, in Pechersk in Kyiv. He registered it under his wife, Anna Pulia. Dirty money from cash-out still needs to be somehow laundered. And Pulia has a lot of money.
Another reason Pulia started encroaching on the medical field is quite mundane. At the end of 2020 of the year, the media reported that the Israeli vaccine Pfizer was smuggled into Ukraine. It was intended for the country’s top leadership, ministers, and members of parliament. By the end of 2020 of the year there was not a single batch of Covid-19 vaccines in Ukraine.
Vaccinations took place during the Christmas holidays at the Medeus medical center that Pulia had just opened. Since the task assigned to him was completed, the cash-out operator was given the green light for cash-out. He is connected to the Office of the President; Pulia now services, among others, companies from the road cartel “Great Construction.” It is there that VAT totaling billions of hryvnias, which Pulia helps the road contractors optimize, is already at stake. Of course he hasn’t forgotten his senior partners in the Office of the President.
The tax optimization scheme used by cash-out operators is standard: controlled transit-conversion and fictitious companies provide services to create and sell fictitious tax credits and VAT. Documentary cover for non-goods transactions that illegally create tax credits is provided to enterprises in the real sector of the economy. The scheme’s total turnover is over 28 billion hryvnias for six months of 2021.
Below is a short list of companies involved in the scheme:
Name
EDRPOU code
Amount, mln.
LLC “AGROOPT-Service”
43011932
3 473 585 600
LLC “ZEMLEORG”
43378201
2 820 845 600
LLC “UKRAGRO S”
39714909
2 566 227 159
LLC “EURO-ZAKHID”
31575761
2 528 230 894
LLC “AGRORESOURCES OF THE COUNTRY”
30074176
1 501 528 000
LLC “SHCHEDRYI HEKTAR”
43550017
1 402 455 431
LLC “PRIMESTAR GROUP”
43354002
1 372 630 943
LLC “VBS-TRADE”
42353584
1 304 595 605
LLC “TD DELTA”
43258340
1 274 384 348
LLC “TRADE-OPT-PLUS”
43344759
1 234 435 000
LLC “VINTERAGRO”
43386448
1 220 921 294
LLC “UKRVTORPROM”
31736993
1 206 432 400
PMP “FIRMA VIT”
22212731
1 195 584 641
LLC “VAYLENDAGRO”
43488667
1 164 864 702
LLC “STRAIGHT COMPANY”
43253206
1 122 921 400
LLC “AKTIV PROMOTION”
43195804
1 118 974 000
LLC “OPT TRANS GROUP”
43331949
1 110 856 095
LLC “O.T.K.”
40351900
1 068 879 172
LLC “MIROS COMPANY”
43338965
1 068 458 200
TOTAL
28 756 810 485
Such volumes indicate that Pulia has found influential patrons within the current authorities who are helping him become the largest cash-out operator in Ukraine.
Pulia has previously been implicated in laundering money through occupied territories, which prompted the Security Service of Ukraine to investigate a criminal case. The court registry also contains information that Pulia’s company, LLC FC “Vap-capital,” serves clients who carry out financial operations and pay taxes in the territories of the terrorist entities “DPR” and “LPR,” contrary to the Resolution of the Board of the National Bank of Ukraine dated 06.08.2014. But influential people helped him avoid criminal liability.
Pulia loves the high life. Media have already reported that he became famous for driving around the capital of Ukraine in two Rolls-Royce cars with plates KA 0008 SK and AA 8547 MM. The price of one such car is on average 600 000 euros. How such a young man earned such wealth can only be guessed. Although why guess, since everyone already knows. The beneficiaries of such cash-out schemes, besides Pulia, are the entire leadership of the tax service and officials of the Office of the President.
Author: Oleg Samson
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