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The Yaroslavl Region Office of the Investigative Committee has opened a criminal investigation into a crime under Part 2, item “b” of Article 199 of the RF Penal Code (evasion of paying taxes and/or duties from an organization committed on a very large scale).

According to investigators, in the period between January 2013 and January 2015, some unidentified persons from among top managers of OAO Dmitry Mendeleyev Refinery of Yaroslavl, a public corporation, put false information in tax reports and did not pay some 483 million rubles in excise duties.

In addition, from January 2013 to March 2015, some unidentified persons from among top managers of the same company did not put the information on the products sold on a domestic market into a tax report and so evaded to pay more than 50 million rubles in VAT. This way, those unidentified persons caused the state a damage of more than 533 million rubles in taxes that were not paid to both the federal and regional budgets.

At present, investigators of the regional investigative authority are carrying out necessary operations and have assigned a number of forensic inquiries to collect and document evidence. The investigation is ongoing.