UAH 2.3 million of unreported income of Kharkiv tax officer will be transferred to the state revenue

In the context of full-scale russian aggression against our country, an extremely important area of work of the State Bureau of Investigation is to contribute to the state budget filling. Following the protocol decision of the special coordination meeting with the Prosecutor General's Office, the Bureau intensified its work in all directions, including a new one - detection of unreported assets of officials with further confiscation of such property to the state budget. On October 18, the court made the first positive decision on the claim of the Special Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office, taking into account the evidence and information collected by the SBI.

The High Anti-Corruption Court declared the assets of a Kharkiv tax official and her relative, who also works at the tax office, to have been illegally acquired. They unjustifiably became owners of a house and land plot in Kyiv region worth over UAH 2.3 million.

The State Bureau of Investigation received additional information and evidence on the origin of the unreported assets of these persons. It was established that the asset was acquired as a result of a non-existent debt between a relative of the official and a third party, which was allegedly confirmed by invalid loan and mortgage agreements.

All the collected evidence was transferred to the Special Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office, which filed a lawsuit to the High Anti-Corruption Court to recognize the assets as unjustified and recover them to the state revenue. As a result, the court recognized the assets of the defendants as unjustified and ordered to confiscate from them more than UAH 2 million 370 thousand.

The systematic work continues. Such decisions will contribute to a significant increase in the detection of unjustified assets of officials and increase the level of combating corruption in the country as a whole.