In Moscow, the court detained three defendants in the case of the "paper VAT" scheme

In Moscow, the Zamoskvoretsky District Court chose a preventive measure in the form of detention until June 14 in relation to three defendants in the case of organizing a fraudulent scheme with "paper VAT", which resulted in damage to the budget of the Russian Federation in the amount of 1.2 trillion rubles. This was reported on April 16 in the case file on the portal of the courts of general jurisdiction of the city of Moscow.

The detained defendants in the case — Patsukov D., Saprykin D. and Makarov A. — are charged with illegal circulation of funds of payments and illegal formation of a legal entity.

It is noted that the court's decision on all three will come into force on April 21.

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In the regions of the Russian Federation, the organizers of the largest paper VAT site were searched a day earlier, through which tax evasion was carried out through fictitious companies. According to the FSB's Public Relations Center, the detainees had previously been convicted of economic crimes.

On the same day, law enforcement officers uncovered a criminal group that had deprived the budget of 1 trillion rubles of taxes. According to the investigation, from 2023 to the present, the attackers have created a network of more than 4 thousand transit organizations. Through this infrastructure, over 40,000 companies from the real sector of the economy received fictitious value added tax (VAT) deductions.