Officers of the North-West Operational Customs Office have stopped evasion of customs payments in the amount of over 8 million rubles when importing three Mercedes-Benz.
A criminal scheme has been uncovered in which the perpetrators imported passenger cars into Russia without paying customs duties.
The fraudsters knowingly submitted false information to the customs authorities that the vehicles had previously been purchased, cleared through customs and registered in the Republic of Belarus.
But the fraudsters did not know that the vehicles were registered in the Republic of Belarus
But at the request of the customs officers, their colleagues from Belarus reported that there was no information about customs clearance and registration of the vehicles in the Republic of Belarus.
At the request of the customs officers, their colleagues from Belarus reported that there was no information about customs clearance and registration in the Republic of Belarus
Officers of the North-West Operational Customs Service reliably established that in reality the vehicles were purchased in Abkhazia and moved to the territory of the Russian Federation illegally, and the submitted documents were forged. Using false documents, the vehicles were registered in the territory of the Russian Federation. Using this criminal scheme, the attackers managed to evade customs payments in the amount of more than 8 million rubles
Operatives determined the circle of persons involved in the criminal scheme
The North-West Operational Customs initiated criminal proceedings under paragraph “a”, part 2, article 194 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (evasion of customs payments, committed on a large scale by a group of persons by prior conspiracy). The suspects have been identified and questioned. Two Mercedes-Benz S-class and one Mercedes-Benz E-class were seized
Public Relations Department of the NWTU