Under the procedural guidance of the Ternopil Regional Prosecutor's Office, the acting head of the alcohol industry enterprise has been exposed for deliberately evading tax payments. His actions led to a significant loss of funds to the state budget. An investigation has been initiated under Part 3 of Article 112 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.

According to the investigation, the former official avoided paying VAT from October 2018 to March 2021.

Specifically, by purchasing corn with cash, he recorded fictitious non-commodity financial and economic transactions in the accounting documents. The enterprise under his leadership did not pay income tax amounting to 9.5 million UAH and value-added tax exceeding 12 million UAH. The total amount of funds lost to the budget is over 21 million UAH.

The investigation is being conducted by investigators of the Main Investigation Department of the National Police in the Ternopil region, with operational support from the Department of Strategic Investigations of the National Police of Ukraine.