Vladimir Region investigating bodies of the Russia’s Investigative Committee in cooperation with regional office of the Federal Tax Service have launched a criminal investigation against former CEO of OOO Alexandrovsky distillery Roman Kastov, 38. He is suspected of a crime under paragraph “b” of part 2 of article 199 of the RF Penal Code (evasion of paying taxes and duties on a very large scale).
According to investigators, in accordance with the stated activity, license for manufacture, storage and delivery of produced alcoholic production, the company is a payer of excises and VAT.
Under the tax laws a taxpayer has a right to correct the amount of taxes if they file authentic documents confirming that the goods were returned to the seller for objective reasons.
Aware of the said law and being interested in evading paying the complete excise and VAT, in the period between 1 January and 22 April 2013, Kastov used a scheme involving formal preparation of documents.
In the said tax period he filed a tax report containing false information that one of large buyers had allegedly returned 18 million 576 thousand 338 bottles of vodka produced by Alexandrovsky distillery.
As a result of fictitious document circulation and Kastov’s wrongdoings the company evaded paying 1 billion 870 million rubles of excises and VAT which is estimated as especially large damage to the budget of the Russian Federation.
At present a number of investigative operations are underway in cooperation with the Federal Tax Service to find out all the circumstances of the crime. The investigation is ongoing.
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