MOSCOW - Detectives raided a factory in Lipetsk, Russia, belonging to Ukraine's Roshen Confectionery Corporation, as part of an investigation into a suspected fraudulent tax rebate of more than 180 million rubles, the Russian Investigative Committee's chief spokesman has said.
Detectives were also searching the offices of the Metallimpress research and development firm in Nizhny Novgorod as part of the same case, the spokesman, Vladimir Markin, told Interfax.
Markin said that in 2012-2013 the Roshen factory and Metallimpress had submitted forged documents to the Federal Tax Service alleging that more than 1 billion rubles’ worth of construction work had been done on the factory premises and seeking a value-added tax rebate of more than 180 million rubles.
The papers “patently overstated” the cost of the construction work done by organizations hired by Metallimpress while some of the supposed subcontractors were not involved in the project at all, the spokesman said.
The factory did receive the rebate it had sought, which “inflicted an exceptional damage on the federal budget.”
Earlier on April 1, the Roshen Corporation said business at its Lipetsk factory had been halted for a tax service raid and called the latter illegal.
