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In Kostroma Oblast, due to Measures Taken by Investigators, Commercial Organization Fully Compensated 500 Million Rubles of Arrears in Respect to Taxes and Levies to Russian Federation Budget

The investigative authorities of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for Kostroma Oblast have completed the investigation of a criminal case on charges against two heads of a commercial organization of committing a crime under Paragraph B of Part 2 of Article 199 of the Criminal Code (tax evasion committed on a particularly large scale).

According to the investigators, in the period 2016-2019, a limited liability company engaged in the construction and repair of auto roads (highways) and registered with the Federal Tax Service of Russia in Kostroma evaded paying a total of 548 million 498 thousand rubles of income tax and value added tax to the Russian Federation budget, which caused economic damage to the state.

This criminal case was investigated by an investigator of the Department for the Investigation of Particularly Important Cases of the Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee of Russia for Kostroma Oblast with the operational support of the Federal Security Service of Russia, the Department of Economic Security and Anti-Corruption Enforcement, and the Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Kostroma Oblast in cooperation with the Department of the Federal Tax Service of Russia for Kostroma Oblast.

Due to the well-planned and thoroughly conducted investigative work during the preliminary investigation of the criminal case, the defendants fully compensated the damage caused to the Russian Federation budget as a result of the committed crime.