Oil trader’s director accused of tax evasion

In the Kyiv region, the director of an oil trading company will be tried for evading almost UAH 17 million in taxes.

This was reported by the National Police of Ukraine.

According to the investigation, the suspect is a former deputy of the Kyiv City Council, currently a lawyer and director of a company engaged in wholesale trade in fuels and lubricants. She is accused of tax evasion in particularly large amounts.

It is known that the company did not register tax invoices for several years and understated the value added tax when trading fuel.

The fact of intentional tax evasion was documented by operatives of the Strategic Investigations Department of the National Police together with detectives of the territorial department of the BEB in the Kyiv region.

For several years in a row, the suspect did not register tax documentation and intentionally understated VAT. This was confirmed by the results of an expert examination, according to which the amount of losses to the state budget amounted to almost UAH 17 million. In addition, in May 2025, the Supreme Court confirmed the legality of the tax authority’s conclusions regarding the enterprise’s understatement of value added tax.

In March 2026, the owners of the enterprise reported suspicion under Part 3 of Article 212 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (evasion of taxes and fees). Currently, the indictment, approved by the Kyiv Regional Prosecutor’s Office, has been sent to the Kyiv-Svyatoshynskyi District Court of Kyiv Region.

The sanction of the incriminated article provides for a fine of up to 25,000 non-taxable minimum incomes of citizens with deprivation of the right to hold certain positions or engage in certain activities for a period of up to three years and confiscation of property.

Previously, “Pryamiy” reported that the Bureau of Economic Security is investigating alleged violations related to tax evasion and money laundering by blogger Volodymyr Zolkin.

Also in Kyiv, the prosecutor’s office, together with the State Tax Service, exposed a scheme to minimize tax liabilities with the participation of pharmacy chains. According to the investigation, over UAH 2 billion was taken out of the shadows during 2022–2025.

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