A scheme to evade 40 million hryvnias in taxes in the fuel market was uncovered in Zaporizhzhia

The Zaporizhzhia Regional Prosecutor’s Office has charged seven members of an organized group with illegally converting funds into cash between 2023 and 2025. 

According to the investigation, the perpetrators supplied fuel and lubricants through eight controlled companies, deliberately concealing part of the transactions from tax reporting. These actions allowed the organizers to evade paying over 40 million UAH in income tax and VAT.

To launder the proceeds, the scheme’s participants used fictitious services and a “revolving financial assistance” mechanism, after which they converted the funds into cash for their own distribution. During searches, law enforcement officials seized financial documentation, vehicles, and fuel vouchers worth approximately 25 million UAH. Currently, the organizer, the accountant, and five other suspects have been subject to preventive measures in the form of bail and nighttime house arrest.

The prosecutor’s office is preparing an appeal against the court’s decision, insisting on keeping the suspects in custody as a more stringent preventive measure. Concurrently, proceedings have been initiated to freeze the accounts and seize the assets of all group members to ensure compensation for the losses incurred by the state. The case is currently in the active pre-trial investigation phase, during which all circumstances surrounding the operation of the network of shell companies are being established.

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