The court granted the request of prosecutors from the Office of the Prosecutor General for the transfer of funds amounting to over 15 million hryvnias to the National Agency for the Detection and Management of Assets (ARMA) for management. These funds were seized within the framework of a criminal proceeding regarding tax evasion and the legalization of income obtained through criminal means.

The pre-trial investigation established that a member of the Ukrainian parliament from several convocations, including from a currently banned political party, contrary to the restrictions set by the Law of Ukraine "On the Status of a Member of Parliament of Ukraine," created a network of companies abroad and exercised actual control over their economic activities.

During the period from 2011 to 2018, he received over 387 million hryvnias in income that was subject to taxation in Ukraine.

Instead, he deliberately concealed the fact of receiving these funds and did not reflect them in his own tax reporting, as a result of which the personal income tax and military levy were not paid to the State Budget of Ukraine.

As a result of conducted forensic economic examinations, tax evasion in the total amount of 71.4 million hryvnias was established.

The former parliamentarian has been notified of suspicion of tax evasion, which led to the non-receipt of funds in particularly large amounts to the State Budget of Ukraine (part 3 of Article 212 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine).

During searches at the places of residence and business of the former deputy, over 340 thousand US dollars, 29.7 thousand euros, 2 thousand Swiss francs, and 87.4 thousand hryvnias were seized, which, according to the exchange rate of the National Bank of Ukraine, amounts to over 15 million hryvnias. Given the signs of illegal origin of these funds, the court has imposed a seizure on them.

The Office of the Prosecutor General is taking further procedural measures to establish all the circumstances of the former parliamentarian's illegal activities and to recover damages caused to the state as a result of the criminal offenses committed by him.

The exposure of this illegal activity became possible thanks to fruitful cooperation between law enforcement agencies and the State Financial Monitoring Service of Ukraine.

The pre-trial investigation in the criminal proceeding is being conducted by the Main Investigative Department of the State Bureau of Investigations with operational support from the Security Service of Ukraine.