SBU employees blocked an illegal scheme of products supply worth millions of hryvnias to temporarily occupied territories of Donetsk and Luhansk regions.

The SBU identified a number of companies that shipped agricultural products, food, light manufactured goods, excisable products and household chemicals to the addresses of fictitious foreign companies under the “hidden transit” scheme.

After crossing the state border, the goods were illegally transported to the temporarily occupied territories of Donetsk and Luhansk regions.

According to preliminary estimates, total amounts of goods exported through the illegal scheme is amounting to UAH 32 million (USD 1,15 million).

Fees and taxes on sales were paid in favor of the so-called "L/DNR".

During the searches of the suspects’ residences and offices, as well as the exporters’ warehouses, the law enforcement seized computers, mobile phones, accounting documents and draft records with data on illegal transit of goods were.

Within the criminal proceedings initiated upon the fact of financing of terrorism (Part 1 of Art. 258-3 of the Criminal code of Ukraine), the investigation is ongoing to establish all the persons involved.

The operation was conducted by operatives and investigators of the SBU Offices in Dnipropetrovsk and Poltava regions under the supervision of the Prosecutor's Office.