Police are investigating a large-scale scheme to trade electronics outside the cash register, in which, according to the investigation, local businessmen and their associates were involved. According to the proceedings, the organizer of the scheme was Nazar Okonsky, who acted together with Serhiy Grokholsky, the owner of the Grokholsky electronics store.
Investigators found that some of the goods — probably quadcopters and mobile phones — were sold "in the shadows": without fiscal checks and without being reflected in official reporting. Payments were made mainly in cash, sometimes in foreign currency, and some of the equipment in the documents was issued for products of another store — "Flagman", which, according to the materials of the proceedings, belongs to another suspect. Such operations, law enforcement officers believe, allowed to evade taxes, legalize income and cash in on proceeds through fictitious and non-commodity transactions.
During the investigative measures in the premises related to the defendants, law enforcement officers seized a number of physical evidence, including precious metals. In particular, the materials mention the seizure of 38 kilograms of silver, which strengthens the investigation's suspicions of illegal conversion of income into precious materials. Currently, there is no information in open sources about the detention or notification of suspicion to the relevant persons; procedural actions are ongoing.
In the materials of the criminal proceedings, law enforcement officers indicate the participation in the scheme of a group of persons connected by friendly and family ties. The investigation is checking the financial chains, ways of cash circulation and the circle of counterparties in order to establish the full scale of evasion and possible channels for withdrawing funds. Sources also do not exclude that some of the operations were built on the use of "hidden" contracts and shell companies.
