A case was opened in Khabarovsk due to non-payment of customs duties.

In Khabarovsk, the company allegedly evaded customs duties for 500 million rubles while transporting chicken meat, and a criminal case has been opened. This was announced on Wednesday, March 19, by the Far Eastern Transport Prosecutor's Office.

"The Khabarovsk Transport Prosecutor's office has recognized as legitimate the initiation of a criminal case on the fact of evading payment of over 500 million rubles of customs duties," follows from the publication of the department in the Telegram channel.

It is specified that the head of the company signed a contract with a foreign company and organized the supply of poultry meat from abroad. So, during the past year, the company received privileges for the import of chickens into Russia, but in fact the bird was not sent for further processing, and therefore the privilege was applied illegally.

Thus, the sum of all unpaid payments for 4 tons of poultry meat amounted to more than 500 million rubles. A criminal case has been opened on the grounds of a crime provided for in paragraph "d" of Part 2 of Article 194 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Evasion of customs duties levied on an organization on an especially large scale").

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