The Slobozhansky Agrosoyuz financial group, together with a network of affiliated companies, organized a large-scale financial scheme of tax evasion, income legalization, and withdrawal of funds into shadow circulation. This is evidenced by data from the Bureau of Economic Security (BEB).
According to the investigation, the company declared fictitious grain sales agreements, receiving budget reimbursement. Then it manipulated the reporting, evading income tax and VAT. The money was withdrawn through controlled companies and transferred in cash or to the accounts of other enterprises under the guise of legal transactions.
Key companies in the scheme:
- "TK Real" LLC (45561172)
- "Kolosok 2024" LLC (45592733)
- Synton Trade LLC (39435043)
- LLC "Slobodka 2022" (44662114)
These enterprises overstated the volume of grain deliveries by 25–60%, and their counterparties often showed signs of fictitiousness.
To hide the fraud, companies declared purchases of goods unrelated to the agricultural sector:
- Gas condensate – through Delivery Oil LLC and Euronaftogastrade LLC
- Building materials – tiles, cement, mastic from Atlant Market LLC
- Auto parts and household goods – through Synton Logistics LLC and Rytal LLC
This allowed the creation of a fictitious tax credit to minimize obligations to the budget.
In 2023–2024, the Slobozhansky Agrosoyuz declared:
- Purchase of goods for UAH 172.1 million (UAH 23.7 million – VAT)
- Sales of grain for UAH 162.1 million (UAH 20 million – VAT)
Among the buyers are real agricultural enterprises, in particular LLC "Cherkasykhlib TD", LLC "Khmelnytskkhlib" and LLC "Ukrainian Grain".
"Slobozhansky Agrosoyuz" leased 47 land plots in the Kharkiv region, but the reality of this lease has not been confirmed. The company had only three employees, which does not correspond to the scale of its financial turnover.
From December 2023 to April 2024, the company was on the list of risky state tax payers, but was later excluded from it by decision of the tax commission in the Kyiv region.
According to experts, shadow schemes in the agricultural sector cost Ukraine UAH 20–30 billion annually. In 2024, the share of illegal turnover in the agricultural sector increased to 18% due to weak control and corruption in tax authorities.
