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Altai customs officers opened three criminal cases on the facts of the withdrawal abroad of more than 192 million rubles. Altai customs together with the Administration of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation for the Altai Territory revealed several facts of illegal transfer of foreign currency abroad totaling more than 192 million rubles

A 45-year-old resident of Novosibirsk opened a wholesale business in the city of Biysk, Altai Territory, registering it with the tax authorities. Then he concluded 3 foreign trade contracts in a Novosibirsk bank with Chinese firms for the supply of goods (electronic components, etc.) to the Russian Federation for a total of $ 4.18 million.

As part of the contracts, the firm of Biyks transferred to the address of three different Chinese firms 2 million 693.5 thousand US dollars, which in equivalent at the rate of the Bank of Russia at that time was 192 million 497.6 thousand rubles and constitutes a particularly large amount. After that, the transaction passport (a currency reporting document in the bank) was closed "in connection with the transfer of it to another bank," but in the other bank new transaction passport was not opened. Contracts expired at the end of 2015. But, as it turned out, by the end of the term of validity of foreign trade contracts the businessman from Novosibirsk did not perform any customs operations, the goods under the contracts were not imported into Russia. Also, no action was taken to return the transferred funds to the Russian Federation. In addition, in order to conceal the traces of the crime, the head of the Biysk firm re-registered it for another person.

In relation to the Novosibirsk resident the Altai Customs opened three criminal cases under article 193 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (evasion of the obligation to repatriate funds in a particularly large amount). This crime provides for a sentence of imprisonment for up to five years.

After carrying out urgent investigative actions, the criminal cases were transferred for preliminary investigation to the internal affairs authorities.

Reference: In 2015, Altai customs officers opened 11 criminal cases under Art. 193 of the Criminal Code (non-return of currency earnings from abroad) and 3 criminal cases under Art. 193.1 (withdrawal of currency abroad under forged documents).

In 2016, Altai Customs opened 12 criminal cases under Art. 193 of the Criminal Code (non-return of currency earnings from abroad) and 3 criminal cases under Art. 193.1 (withdrawal of currency abroad under forged documents). The amount of illegally withdrawn currency amounted to 361 million 548 thousand rubles.

Press Service of the Siberian Customs Administration, tks.ru, 7 September 2016