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In Saint Petersburg, investigators arrest property of commercial company worth over 1.5 billion rubles during tax evasion probe

The Saint Petersburg Directorate of the Investigative Committee continues the investigation in a crime under Part 2, item “b" of Article 199 of the RF Penal Code (tax evasion).

According to investigators, unidentified people acting on behalf of Delovye Linii (Business Lines), a limited liability company, violated the tax laws when from October 2011 to March 2014 put into VAT tax reports for 2011, 2012 and 2013 false information that they had the right to have 516 million 103 thousand rubles of the tax deducted and that they had expenses of 2 billion 867 million 239 thousand rubles in the said years that reduced the tax collected from corporations. This way, the company failed to pay 1 billion 89 million 551 thousand rubles in VAT and corporate tax.

By now a court has arrested 1 billion 598 million 689 thousand rubles of the funds owned by OOO Delovye Linii on bank accounts considering penalty fees. The investigators are now identifying who among the top management of the company was involved in the tax crime.