Thousands of Russian nationals may be at risk of their foreign accounts being blocked.
Russian businessman and lawmaker Suleiman Kerimov was arrested by French police at Nice airport on Monday evening in connection with a tax evasion case, an official at the French prosecutor’s office said on Tuesday, according to Reuters.
The SBU Security Service of Ukraine says the participants of the liquefied gas market have not paid UAH 1.3 billion (US$49 million) is taxes and mandatory deductions.
Kyiv law enforcers have exposed the illegal operations of the "center for minimizing customs payments" with the participation of Chinese citizens aimed at facilitating tax evasion by a number of companies, according to the Kyiv Prosecutor's Office press service.
Ukrainian Finance Minister Oleksandr Danyliuk claims Ukraine's State Fiscal Service (SFS) has renewed a probe into his alleged tax evasion.
As of August this year, the National Agency for Prevention of Corruption (NAPC) has decided to carry out a full audit of the declarations of 220 officials for 2015 and 2016, according to the agency's website.
Kyiv's Pechersk District Court ruled that the State Fiscal Service audit Finance Minister of Ukraine Oleksandr Danyliuk for possible tax evasion, as stated in the relevant decision posted in the Unified State Register of Judicial Decisions.
Head of the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office (SAPO) Nazar Kholodnytsky has announced the launch of an investigation into allegations of tax evasion made by Radical Party leader Oleh Liashko against Ukrainian Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko, according to an UNIAN correspondent.