{"id":599638,"date":"2026-11-06T10:16:52","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T07:16:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=599638"},"modified":"2026-11-06T11:12:19","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T08:12:19","slug":"minsk-businessman-suspected-of-tax-evasion-involving-more-than-1-6-million-roubles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/minsk-businessman-suspected-of-tax-evasion-involving-more-than-1-6-million-roubles","title":{"rendered":"Minsk Businessman Suspected Of Tax Evasion Involving More Than 1.6 Million Roubles"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>A 45-year-old businessman in Minsk is suspected of large-scale tax evasion and abuse of office. According to preliminary information, he underpaid more than 1.6 million roubles in taxes, while damage to the state exceeded 430,000 roubles, the <a href=\"https:\/\/sk.gov.by\/ru\/news-usk-gminsk-ru\/view\/v-minske-biznesmen-nedoplatil-nalogov-v-kaznu-gosudarstva-svyshe-16-millionov-rublej-vozbuzhdeno-ugolovnoe-16514\">Investigative Committee<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>According to the criminal case materials, the Minsk resident was the founder and director of a company in the capital that had supplied water supply and heating equipment to state organisations at inflated prices for several years.<\/p>\n<p>To implement the scheme, the businessman used companies under his control, including those registered in Russia in the names of relatives and acquaintances. In practice, he managed all the companies himself.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators found that transactions between the companies were fictitious. The businessman documented sham transfers of goods between the entities under his control and inflated transport costs. This allowed him to set trade mark-ups based on competitors&#8217; prices rather than the company&#8217;s actual expenses.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, in some cases, he deliberately changed product names to sell them to different buyers at different prices.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation found that equipment prices had been inflated in violation of the law. In some cases, the trade mark-up reached 65% of the selling price, despite the statutory maximum of 15%.<\/p>\n<p>The illegal activities were uncovered and stopped by officers of the Financial Investigations Department of the State Control Committee for the Vitsyebsk Region.<\/p>\n<p>A criminal case has been opened against the businessman under Part 3 of Article 243 of the Criminal Code (tax evasion resulting in damage on an especially large scale) and Part 3 of Article 426 of the Criminal Code (abuse of office resulting in grave consequences).<\/p>\n<p>Investigators are establishing all episodes of the alleged unlawful activities and taking measures to recover the damage caused to the state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 45-year-old businessman in Minsk is suspected of large-scale tax evasion and abuse of office. According to preliminary information, he underpaid more than 1.6 million roubles in taxes, while damage to the state exceeded 430,000 roubles, the Investigative Committee reported. According to the criminal case materials, the Minsk resident was the founder and director of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":530297,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/6aed8be61d616.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Minsk Businessman Suspected Of Tax Evasion Involving More Than 1.6 Million Roubles"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143094],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-599638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-incident"],"acf":[],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=599638"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":599639,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599638\/revisions\/599639"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/530297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}