S.Group Corporation has denied claims of tax agencies on tax payment against the group's companies.

"Tax agencies in 2014 confirmed that there are no claims on tax payment against S.Group's companies. The letters of the State Tax Inspectorate of Amur-Nyzhniodniprovsky district of Dnipropetrovsk are dated February 2014. S.Group successfully challenged the new claims of taxmen in court in 2015," the corporation said in a statement, a copy of which has been forwarded to Interfax-Ukraine.

Copies of documents that fully refute the statements of Deputy Prosecutor General in Dnipropetrovsk region Andriy Bachysche, S.Group Board Chairman Dmytro Rybalka said.

Rybalka said that actions of Dnipropetrovsk prosecutors are linked to the political pressure on his brother, MP Serhiy Rybalka.

"In 2012-2013 we received claims that we allegedly did not pay UAH 145 million of taxes. These were done in the period of Yanukovych regime and they were linked to the corporate conflict of S.І. Group with the ATB supermarket chain. The co-owner of ATB [Hennadiy] Butkevych tried to destroy and seize our family business. However he failed, and in 2014 tax agencies admitted their mistakes. We asked for explanations and received the answer that they do not have claims against us, and all criminal cases were closed," Dmytro Rybalka said.

He said that in late 2014, fiscal agencies again tried to additionally accrue allegedly unpaid in 2012-2013 taxes for S.Group's Prodexport-2009, although the district administrative court in Dnipropetrovsk in September 2015 declared these claims void.

He also said that the department of the State Fiscal Service in Dnipropetrovsk region failed to challenge the decision in the court of appeals and the ruling took effect.

Rybalka said that Prosecutor General's Office in Dnipropetrovsk region is trying not to allow the continuation of the court dispute regarding the collection of the UAH 110 million debt of the ATB supermarket chain to S.Group in the business court of appeals in Kyiv.