SBU continues to actively stop the illegal activities of certain business entities protected by tax authorities. Systematic measures to prevent the state budget loss and to uncover persons involved in the legalization of proceeds of crime are being taken.

During the last few days:

• The payer's account in the value-added tax electronic management system was seized. The total amount of arrested funds is circa UAH 600,000,000 (USD 22,222,223);

• The flow of funds in the bank accounts of the entities involved in the scheme was stopped jointly with the State Financial Monitoring Service of Ukraine. The sum of frozen funds amounting to UAH 30,000,000 (USD 1,111,112).

• A person was served a suspicion notice of unauthorized interference with the State Fiscal Service ITS.

Moreover, other measures to prevent and compensate for state budget losses, as well as to bring to justice all those involved in fraud are being taken.

It should be pointed out that yesterday SBU officers carried out more than 100 simultaneous searches at persons involved in cooperation and "protection" of conversion centers.

Reportedly, the SBU informed that tax officials have been exposed on organizing illegal scheme of creation tax credit for billions of hryvnas. Also SBU officers have documented facts of illegal activities of interregional transit and conversion groups, which provided services of tax evasion to importers from southern Ukraine, involved in smuggling.