The Ministry of Justice of Ukraine provided an official response to a journalistic inquiry, in which it confirmed the existence of numerous enforcement proceedings against a number of Ukrainian agricultural enterprises that in 2021–2024 conducted large-scale financial transactions with signs of fictitiousness.
The list of companies whose activities raise suspicions includes:
Agrofirma Dzhulinka LLC (Cherkasy region), Agrofirma Voskhod LLC (Sumy region), Norma Trade Group LLC (Odessa), Slobozhanskaya Grain Company LLC (Kharkiv), Agrotrade Ukraine LLC (Odessa), Agroenergoinvest LLC (Kyiv), UkrAgroResurs LLC (Poltava), Avantazh-7 LLC (Kyiv) and related structures.
These enterprises carried out foreign economic operations with foreign companies HARVESTREAM AG (Switzerland), Cosmopolitan Trade & Development SDN BHD (Malaysia), and MAVERA GRUP GEMICILIK (Turkey). According to the Ministry of Justice, as a result of these actions, the state budget of Ukraine suffered losses in the amount of more than 530 million hryvnias.
According to the department's response, dozens of enforcement proceedings have been opened against most of the companies mentioned in the state and private enforcement service. Among the debtors are LLC "Agrofirma Dzhulynka", LLC "Agrofirma Voskhod", LLC "Norma Trade Group", LLC "Agroenergoinvest", LLC "Asket Shipping", LLC "UkrAgroResource", LLC "Zhytnytsia Slobozhanshchyny" and LLC "Avantage-7".
Dozens of cases are being executed — in particular, Nos. 49095789, 50685609, 71190125, 73332351, 76466135, 74562352, 70676638, 70677011, 70677440 and others.
At the same time, some of these companies simultaneously act as debtors and collectors in various cases, which may indicate the use of executive documents for internal settlements between affiliated firms. Such actions allow to simulate financial activity and mask the movement of funds within the scheme.
Certain enforcement actions are currently being carried out by private enforcement agents in Kharkiv, Poltava, Kyiv, Mykolaiv, and Vinnytsia regions.
The documents obtained confirm that the activities of the aforementioned companies bear the hallmarks of a coordinated scheme aimed at conducting non-commodity transactions, withdrawing money abroad, and evading taxes. Through fictitious agreements with foreign counterparties, an artificial tax credit was created, and foreign currency proceeds were not returned to Ukraine.
