The State Tax Service of Ukraine has revealed signs of a large-scale scheme of withdrawing funds abroad through a network of risky economic entities. This is stated in the message of the Tax Service, reports “Kommersant-Ukrainian“. The PromPolitInform portal informs.
We are talking about more than 2.3 thousand companies that made foreign economic operations worth more than UAH 198 billion and then actually disappeared.
Characteristics of schemes and their scales
The HNS received the information by analyzing data from the National Bank for the period from 2024 to the first quarter of 2026. Most of the operations concerned the export of goods: 1,243 companies exported goods worth more than UAH 176 billion, and 555 companies imported goods worth more than UAH 18 billion. Such activity indicates a coordinated network of economic entities.
As indicated in the message:
These data indicate belonging to an organized scheme of withdrawal of funds abroad.
Geographical distribution
Most of the offending companies are concentrated in 7 regions of Ukraine:
Odesa Region,
Kyiv,
Dnipropetrovsk region,
Lviv Oblast,
Kharkiv region,
Kyiv region,
Zaporozhye region.
These regions account for 73% of all offenders and 78% of the total volume of such operations. Among the managers of companies who are wanted, many head several, and sometimes dozens of companies at once.
Many infringing companies used the same IP addresses, reported on the same computer networks, and were registered at the same addresses.
For example, 20 such companies are registered at one address in Kyiv, 10 and 13 in Lviv, respectively.
All collected materials were transferred by the State Internal Revenue Service to the Office of the Prosecutor General for further processing and decision-making in accordance with the legislation.
To date, the State Tax Service has already prepared analytical conclusions regarding 557 economic entities that indicate a violation of tax legislation.
