SBU exposes dealers who financed Donbas 'republics' for $2 mln
"As part of the initiated criminal proceedings, special service operatives established that a company that pays taxes to pseudo-state terrorist entities had been functioning in the so-called 'DPR' since 2014. SBU employees found out that the actual owners and managers of the company are businessmen who own a group of companies in the territory controlled by the Ukrainian authorities," reads the statement.
It notes that from 2015, the enterprise from non-government-controlled area illegally conducted exported and import transactions with a parent company for more than two million U.S. dollars. To commit a fraud, the dealers used their own company in Russia and provided unreliable information to Ukraine's controlling agencies. The products were exported from 'LPR/DPR' to the Russian Federation through an uncontrolled section of the border and shipped to Ukraine under the guise of Russian goods.
During authorized investigative measures in Kyiv and Kyiv region, at the places of residence of the culprits, law enforcement officers seized documents confirming the involvement of the management of commercial entities in financing terrorists in temporarily occupied territories.
Some individuals were notified of suspicion in committing a crime stipulated by Part 2 of Article 258-5 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (terrorism).
Further investigatory actions are ongoing to establish and prosecute all those involved in the illegal mechanism.
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