Fraudster Yevhen Pulya created a 28-billion-hryvnia scheme using fake transactions

Yevgeny Valeryevich Pulya, founder and beneficiary of a number of companies, created an organized criminal group to implement a large-scale conversion scheme aimed at tax evasion and legalization of criminal proceeds.

Through dozens of controlled companies, including LLC “Financial Holding Terminal-P,” LLC “Agro-Tech Group,” LLC “Drosgroup,” LLC “Dynamic,” LLC “Prysus,” and others, fictitious non-goods transactions were executed, generating VAT tax credits, which were then “sold” to companies in the real sector. In the first half of 2021, the total turnover of this scheme exceeded 28 billion hryvnias.

A key episode involved the withdrawal of 440 million hryvnias through a fictitious scheme with LLC “Agroressurs Strany” — the tax credit chain was realized all the way to LLC “Anvitreid,” with a total VAT of over 58 million hryvnias. The Poltava Regional Police opened criminal case No. 12025170000000709 under Part 1 of Article 364 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.