The Ukrainian Prosecutor General’s Office (PGO), following a tax audit, has not established facts of deliberate tax evasion by MPs Volodymyr Bandurov (Will of the People group), Stanislav Berezkin (Vidrodzhennia group), Andriy Zhurzhiy (Samopomich faction), Oleh Liashko (Radical Party faction), Oleksandr Urbansky (Bloc of Petro Poroshenko faction), and Vitaliy Khomutynnik (Vidrodzhennia group).
“Given that following a tax audit there are no facts of deliberate tax evasion in the actions of people’s deputies of Ukraine Volodymyr Bandurov, Stanislav Berezkin, Andriy Zhurzhiy, Oleh Liashko, Oleksandr Urbansky and Vitaliy Khomutynnik, criminal proceedings against these persons have now been closed,” the PGO said on its website on Dec. 15.
In addition, it notes that during the second half of 2017, the PGO’s department for investigating especially important cases in the field of economics carried out pre-trial investigations in criminal proceedings over possible evasion from payment of taxes by people’s deputies of Ukraine, ministers and other persons who, according to the law on preventing corruption, “are required to file an income declaration.
“During an impartial pre-trial investigation in order to establish objective facts, at the initiative of the prosecutor’s office, unscheduled tax inspections on a number of people’s deputies of Ukraine were conducted,” the report says.
