The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has exposed and stopped an illegal financial scheme used to embezzle tens of millions of hryvnias in Sumy.
“It’s been established that three private companies registered to two
Russian citizens were created at the end of 2013 in Sumy. The corporate
details of the specified companies were used to arrange bogus financial
and economic activities with enterprises in Kyiv, Dnipropetrovsk,
Poltava, Kharkiv, Zaporizhia regions and Crimea,” reads the statement by
SBU press service posted on Sept. 11.
The SBU said that deals worth tens of millions of hryvnias were
conducted through banks connected to Oleksandr Yanukovych, the son of
ouster former President Viktor Yanukovych, and his circle.
“According to experts’ assessments, these schemes inflicted damage to the state budget worth over Hr 64 million,” the SBU said.
Based on SBU materials, the Sumy office of the Ukrainian Income and
Tax Ministry has opened criminal proceedings under Part 2 of Article 205
(financial institutions that caused large material damages to the
state) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.
