First checks on e-declarations will concern officials declaring over $100,000 in cash or in banks

12:17, 01.11.2016 1 min read

The Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine intends to check tax payments by Verkhovna Rada deputies, who declared more than $100,000 in cash.

"We will analyze the declarations of the half of Ukrainian MPs, who declared cash exceeding $100,000," Prosecutor General of Ukraine Yuriy Lutsenko said at a briefing in Kyiv.

He said "the first wave of checks on declarations will concern several hundred people, who declared more than $100,000 in cash, gifts for more than $10,000 and bank account exceeding $100,000."

According to Lutsenko, for this law enforcement authorities will appeal to the State Fiscal Service regarding possible tax evasion. They will check for the presence of a crime under Article 212 (evasion from payment of taxes, duties and other compulsory payments) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.

Lutsenko said the next step will be the analysis of e-declarations for possible money laundering, proceeds obtained from crime, as well as information about the bank accounts of officials who filed e-declarations.