The Ukrainian Security Service has launched a raid to expose the State Fiscal Service officials, who extorted UAH 70 million from businesses for non-hindered VAT refunds, the SBU press center reports.
The law enforcers found that the employees of the structural units of a big taxpayers office at the SFS had been systemically demanding money from businessmen for non-interference in the process of VAT reimbursement from the state budget, reads the report.
The perpetrators attracted former employees of law enforcement agencies as intermediaries in their corrupt scheme.
”The security service officials have exposed the [SFS] Office staff on the extortion of UAH 70 million from a commercial structure for a UAH 300 million VAT reimbursement. In the framework of the investigation, a group of intermediaries and accomplices was detained in Kyiv upon the receipt of the first batch of the bribe,” the SBU reported.
The investigation is ongoing.
