10:20 07.09.2017

PGO in court secures arrest of accounts of three enterprises of Astarta agroholding

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PGO in court secures arrest of accounts of three enterprises of Astarta agroholding

Kyiv's Pechersky district court under a petition of a prosecutor of the department for investigating important economic matters of the Prosecutor General's Office (PGO) Denys Kovin has arrested accounts of Tsukoragroprom LLC, Khmelnytske LLC and Volochysk-Agro LLC, part of Astarta agricultural holding, opened in ING Bank Ukraine.

According to the unified register of court rulings, the court issued the ruling on August 30. The PGO filed the petition as part of the pretrial investigation into a criminal case opened on June 7, 2017 where the companies are suspected of tax evasion.

According to the document, managers of Tsukoragroprom in 2016-2017 supplied 85,000 tonnes of liquid industrial ammonia for UAH 715 million to five enterprises of Astarta, including two above-mentioned enterprises.

Other details of the case are not disclosed.

According to the court ruling, the companies are able to pay taxes and salaries using funds from the arrested accounts.

In addition, Pechersky district court on August 30, 2017 permitted prosecutors and investigators from the investigation group of the PGO in the criminal case to have temporary access to things and documents of Volochysk-Agro LLC, Poltavazernoprodukt investment and industrial company LLC (Hlobyne, Poltava region), Dobrobut's farms (Kozelschyna, Poltava region) and Khmelnytske LLC.

The PGO was permitted to seize original contracts, invoices, letters, orders and other documents related to transactions with Tsukoragroprom and other enterprises on selling and purchasing liquid ammonia and its storage, as well as information about key economic indicators of the agricultural companies, areas planted with crops and applied fertilizers.

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