A criminal case was opened against Director of the company, waste wood in China

Employees of the Nizhny Novgorod customs has opened a criminal case concerning 28-the summer inhabitant of the Kirov region – the General Director of one of the Kirov companies under part 1 of article 194 of the criminal code (Evasion of customs payments committed on a large scale).

The company is engaged in foreign trade activities – export of timber abroad. For more than two years from December 2017 and January 2020 in 6 contracts with various Chinese organizations of the Kirov company that had removed the timber from the birch trees in the amount of 51 133 738,08 rubles – the same total customs value of the goods and the said declarant to the customs.

Additional charges in the customs value Declaration by the declarant is not stated. Meanwhile, when determining customs value was unaccounted services for the supply of timber. At the conclusion of each foreign trade contract, the declarant was also the contract of freight forwarding services with the buyer of the goods.

The transaction price, which is the basis for determining the customs value stated in the Declaration, was declared without taking into account the cost of transportation of goods.

In the end, the amount of unpaid customs duties amounted to 4 624 296,18 rubles.

The declarant in the transaction had total information about the actual party for the sale of goods and the provision of transport services. Criminal case on signs of the crime provided by part 1 of article 194 of the criminal code.

Predicate offences detected by customs bodies of Privolzhsky region in the export of timber is a false Declaration. As a rule, is lowering of the volume of exported timber, declaring the most valuable tree species under the usual rocks, understating the customs value.

Department of public relations vocational school