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Employees of the Volga operational customs filed two criminal cases on the facts of transferring currency in a particularly large amount to non-resident accounts using forged documents.

On 1 September 2017, the Volga operational customs initiated two criminal cases at once against unidentified persons on the grounds of corpus delicti, the responsibility for which is provided for by paragraph “a” of Part 3 of Art. 193.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“performing currency operations for transferring funds in foreign currency to non-resident’s bank accounts providing a credit institution with the authority of the currency control agent, with documents related to such operations and containing knowingly unreliable information about the grounds, purposes and details of the transfer, on a large scale ").

As it turned out, two Nizhny Novgorod firms (presumably one-day firms created for conducting criminal operations) operated according to the same scheme.

The directors of these firms signed contracts with foreign companies for the supply of goods for a large amount of money. In the first case, with a company from Belize for the supply of cables, shields, diode tapes, etc. in the amount of 10,967,510 US dollars. As a result, 6,597,810 US dollars (492,999,149 Russian rubles) were transferred to the non-resident.

In the second case, with a company from Kazakhstan for the supply of construction and installation equipment of various denominations for the total amount of $ 7,609,740. For the goods under the contract, 6,407,545 US dollars (493,706,275 Russian rubles) were transferred to the non-resident.

Information on the importation into the territory of the Russian Federation of goods under the contract and on the return of funds, in both cases is absent.

The penalty under this article is imprisonment for a term of five to ten years with a fine of up to one million rubles.

Privolzhskoye Customs Administration press service, tks.ru, 07 September 2017