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Ural businessmen brought over 28 million rubles through a Tomsk company to Kyrgyzstan with forged documents. The veiled criminal scheme was uncovered by the employees of Tomsk Customs and the Administration of the Federal Tax Service of Russia for Tomsk Region.

Unscrupulous businessmen of Chelyabinsk have invented a difficult for the detection by law enforcement officers scheme to withdraw money abroad. Operating in the Urals region, they bought a company in the neighboring Siberian Federal District - in Tomsk. They chose a company that had previously successfully conducted foreign economic activities, but since 2015 it has stopped deliveries from China.

Using the Tomsk company, the fraudsters concluded contracts for the supply of goods from Kyrgyzstan. They opened accounts for the company in banks in different cities, including Ekaterinburg, Novosibirsk. The money for the goods to the “supplier firms” from Kyrgyzstan was transferred through the client-bank system, which allows making payments remotely.

However, the supply contracts were concluded not on behalf of the actual director, but on behalf of the former director, who has not participated in the company’s operations since 2015.

Therefore, the funds to Kyrgyz companies were transferred using forged documents.

In reality, the goods specified in the seven contracts concluded — women\'s, children\'s, men\'s shoes made of artificial leather, cotton knitwear, textiles (including those made in the PRC), lead alloy in ingots — were not delivered. Also, the currency earnings were not returned to the accounts of the Tomsk company, as required by the currency legislation of the Russian Federation. The scheme of withdrawal to Kirghizia of 28,687,568 rubles, committed by a group of persons in a preliminary conspiracy, was revealed by Tomsk Customs in cooperation with the Administration of the Federal Tax Service of Russia for Tomsk Region.

In April and June 2019, seven criminal cases were instituted on the grounds of crimes stipulated by part 2 of article 193.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation - currency operations for transferring funds in foreign currency or in currency of the Russian Federation to non-resident accounts using forged documents in a large amount.

A large amount is the amount of illegally transferred money within one year from 9 to 45 million rubles. Such acts are punishable by imprisonment for a term of up to five years with a fine of up to one million rubles.

Press Service of the Siberian Customs Administration, tks.ru, 15 July 2019