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In Stavropol Territory CEO of commercial organization suspected of evading over a billion rubles of taxes

Stavropol Territory investigating bodies of the Russia’s Investigative Committee have launched two more criminal investigations against CEO of LLC LVZ Suvorovsky suspected of two crimes under paragraph “b”, of part 2 of article 199 of the RF Criminal Code (evading paying taxes).

According to investigators, in April 2012, the CEO submitted to a tax body declarations on excises for March and April 2012 which did not reflected the volume of sold alcohol which is a tax base for the calculation of excise taxes. This way the company understated the tax base for calculation of excise taxes equivalent to water-free ethyl alcohol in quantity of 5 million 428 thousand 168 liters. The general debt on excises amounted to more than 1 billion rubles.

In addition, investigating bodies are investigating a case opened in January 2012 against the same person and for a similar crime.

The two cases have been filed into a single lawsuit, the officials of the tax inspectorate are being questioned, the seized economic and financial documents are being analyzed and other procedural operations are underway to collect necessary evidence.