The Office of the Prosecutor General, together with the Bureau of Economic Security of Ukraine, has completed the pre-trial investigation in a criminal proceeding concerning the suspicion of three officials of JSC "Poltavaoblenergo" in intentional tax evasion in particularly large amounts.

According to the investigation, in December 2022, during the massive attacks by the Russian Federation on the energy infrastructure, the suspects, under the guise of the need to create an emergency stock of transformers, organized financial and economic operations with a company showing signs of fictitiousness. In reality, the equipment was not purchased, and the schemes were used to evade tax payments to the budget in the amount of over 49 million UAH.

The collected evidence confirmed the commission of a criminal offense as provided for in part 3 of Article 212 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. Three officials have been notified of suspicion. The investigation is now complete, and the indictment will be sent to court in the near future.

The pre-trial investigation was conducted by detectives of the Bureau of Economic Security under the procedural guidance of prosecutors from the Office of the Prosecutor General.

Note: According to Article 62 of the Constitution of Ukraine, a person is presumed innocent of committing a crime and cannot be subjected to criminal punishment until their guilt is proven in a lawful manner and established by a guilty verdict of the court.