Unknown companies Zovnitransgaz LLC (Simferopol, Crimea), private company Armada-Plus (Svitlovodsk, Kirovohrad region) and Petrol subsidiary (small private company Petrol-Forwarding, Odesa) in October exported around 117,000 tonnes of petrol to Zevidon Trading Ltd (Belize), a source on the market has told Interfax-Ukraine.
“Under the documents, petrol was shipped by tank trucks (the origin of petrol is unknown) to tankers. Then fuel was allegedly shipped to Belize. It’s unrealistic, even from the technical point of view,” the source expressed his doubts regarding the trustworthiness of the transactions.
The source said that the largest oil refinery in Ukraine in Kremenchuk in the peaks of its operation shipped around 120,000 tonnes of fuel via tank trucks, annually, not monthly.
The state could accrue refunding of value added tax worth around UAH 200-300 million to the companies for exports of 117,000 tonnes of petrol, the source said.
Earlier this year there was information on transactions arousing doubts, but concerning imports of petrol to the country. According to sources from the State Customs Service and Ukrzaliznytsia, starting from May, the fuel volume supplied to the domestic market by rail considerably exceeded the volumes of petrol which passed the customs clearance on the border, which could be evidence of the application of a scheme of the stopped transit to import petrol to Ukraine without paying the excise duty and value added tax.
In the first nine months of 2012 the discrepancy in the indictors came to 397,200 tonnes, which equals to the payment of the excise duty and value added tax worth some UAH 1.4 billion.
According to sources, 368,000 tonnes was shipped to three stations: Myronivka (Kyiv region), Svitlovodsk (Kirovohrad region) and Chormonorska (Odesa region), where the above-mentioned companies have their own customs warehouses.
According to sources on the market, the data could be evidence of existing imports and exports supplies of petrol via the three stations by the same group, although there are no official comments of the interested bodies: the State Tax Service, State Customs Service, the government or law-enforcement bodies.
Forbes.Ukraine publication alleged that Gaz Ukraina of Kharkiv businessman Serhiy Kurchenko, who could be affiliated with the son of Ukrainian Prosecutor General Artem Pshonka, could be this group, although the group denied the information.
