The Tver customs revealed facts of violations of currency legislation in tens of millions of rubles

The facts of illegal withdrawal of funds abroad was established the Tver customs officers in checking compliance by participants of foreign economic activity of the currency legislation of the Russian Federation.

Thus, the company from Tver has entered into several contracts with the firm from Estonia for the supply of electrical equipment: machine tools, presses, installations, lifts, totaling over 200 million rubles. The money for the goods was transferred by the buyer to the seller. But imported equipment was not delivered to Russia, as was not refunded the money. Under the terms of the contract, if the goods are for whatever reason not delivered, the seller returns to the buyer the entire transaction amount in the specified in the documents of the time. However, the buyer these facts are not outraged. It was established that the company is not appealed to the courts with a complaint against an unscrupulous seller, and did not report cases of fraud and violations of the agreements. That is money in fact has been illegally shifted abroad.

Another firm registered in Moscow, under the contract signed was only part of the purchased goods. The remaining amount was not delivered to Russia. Thus, abroad brought 95 million rubles.

In all cases seen signs of structure of crimes responsibility for which is envisaged in subsection “a”, part 2 of article 193 of the criminal code of Russian Federation (“Evasion from execution of duties for the repatriation of funds in foreign currency or the currency of the Russian Federation”). For further validation and action in accordance with the law, the case was transferred to the Ministry of internal Affairs of Russia across the Tver region.

Yulia Kalinina,
press Secretary of the Tver customs