During an operational event conducted by the State Security Service and the Department for Combating Economic Crimes, a large-scale fraud case related to Value Added Tax (VAT) was exposed.
It is known that an individual, previously employed by the tax authorities and currently working as an accountant at an LLC providing transport and logistics services in Tashkent, through his former colleagues, demanded $35,000 USD in exchange for facilitating the refund of a 17 billion soum negative VAT difference to a paint manufacturing enterprise and reactivating a suspended VAT certificate.
This individual was apprehended with material evidence while receiving $20.5 thousand from the founder of the LLC.
Regarding this case, a criminal case has been initiated against the accountant and other individuals under Article 168, Part 4, paragraph "a" and Article 211, Part 3, paragraph "a" of the Criminal Code.
During the preliminary investigation, the suspect admitted that he intended to carry out his "assistance" through a senior inspector of the Tax Committee. This state servant has also been involved in the criminal case as a suspect.
