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The management of a Minsk travel company is accused of evading taxes through foreign intermediaries. Company officials repaid most of the damage and left Belarus before a criminal case was opened.
The Minsk prosecutor’s office opened a criminal case based on materials from an inspection by the Financial Investigations Department of the State Control Committee.
According to the case materials, the owners and officials of the travel company inserted unjustified intermediaries in the form of affiliated foreign companies in Cyprus and the UAE into the “travel agent-tour operator” chain and from 2013 to 2023 submitted false information about financial and business relations with the companies. In this way, they deliberately understated the company’s tax base and underpaid profit tax and VAT by more than 700,000 Belarusian roubles, the prosecutor’s office reported.
The officials of the travel company repaid almost all of the damage during the pre-investigation stage and left Belarus before a criminal case on tax evasion under Part 2 of Article 243 of the Criminal Code was opened.
The criminal case has been transferred to the Investigative Committee for a preliminary investigation.