Since the beginning of the year, the SBI has been investigating more than 100 criminal proceedings on tax violations
The State Bureau of Investigation continues its systematic work on combating tax crimes. Such offences require a thorough and high-quality pre-trial investigation, which will guarantee not only punishment of the perpetrators, but also compensation of losses to the state.
In total, since the beginning of 2023, SBI employees have been investigating 103 criminal proceedings for tax crimes. As a result of their work, 32 tax officers were served with a notice of suspicion, and 36 indictments against 37 officials were sent to court.
The SBI revealed that the state suffered UAH 76.5 million in losses due to the tax officials' illegal actions. As a result of the SBI's work, UAH 36 million has already been reimbursed, and the courts have seized property worth UAH 6.3 million. The investigations were conducted with the assistance of the leadership of the State Tax Service.
The SBI investigation materials show that tax officials commit crimes primarily for their own enrichment.
Sometimes, the defendants do not disdain even amounts of just a few thousand hryvnias. However, the largest amounts of unlawful benefit received by dishonest officials reach millions of hryvnias.
The most high-profile cases of the SBI in the field of combating tax crimes were the following:
- SBI notifies tax officer from Ternopil region of suspicion of helping company avoid paying multimillion-dollar taxes
- SBI completes investigation of tax officer who helped plant evade paying over UAH 70 million in taxes
- SBI exposed two tax service officials of Kirovohrad region on million-dollar fraud in tax invoice registration
- SBI notifies ex-taxpayer from Poltava of suspicion of covering up illegal activities of vodka plant
- SBI conducts searches at the head of one of the regional tax departments, who bought luxury real estate in Kyiv and paid taxes to russia
