Odesa Company Evaded ₴158M in Taxes, Reimburses State After Action

An Odesa-based company exporting agricultural products evaded paying UAH 158 million in taxes. After the intervention of the Bureau of Economic Security, the company reimbursed the state for the losses.

According to the Territorial Department of the BES in Odesa region, in 2024, representatives of the company, which specializes in the wholesale of grain, seeds and animal feed, deliberately failed to declare their income and failed to pay income tax in the amount of UAH 158.3 million. During the pre-trial investigation, the company has already returned these funds to the state budget.

The Odesa Regional Prosecutor's Office added that they had sent an indictment to the court against the financial director of the agricultural enterprise for intentional tax evasion on a large scale (Part 3 of Article 212 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine).

The defendant deliberately failed to include part of the profit received from the export of 92 thousand tons of wheat, soybeans, barley and corn, worth more than UAH 879 million, in the tax returns for the first half of 2024. The products were exported through one of the ports of Odesa region to China and India.

Since the volume of products sold and the company's income significantly exceeded the declared figures, the state budget did not receive more than UAH 158 million in taxes.

Earlier, Intent wrote that agro traders accuse representatives of the Bureau of Economic Security (BES) of putting pressure and blocking work at enterprises in the port of Odesa.

According to the participants of the event, since December 19, BES detectives, citing alleged tax evasion, have been paralyzing the activities of dozens of companies operating in the port of Odesa. In particular, Attollo Granum, which paid more than UAH 25 million in taxes last year, suffers daily losses of more than UAH 750 thousand due to the blocking of its operations. Similar problems have arisen at the company Prista Oil-Ukraine, which employs more than 160 people.

Meanwhile, the BES stated that it had exposed a group of companies through which funds of American investors were withdrawn for tax evasion during grain transshipment.

Ірина Глухова