Detectives from the Territorial Department of the Bureau of Economic Security in Kyiv have opened criminal proceedings against a well-known Ukrainian blogger on suspicion of large-scale tax evasion. The case involves a possible failure to pay over 11 million hryvnias.
According to the investigation, over the past five years, the blogger received regular income from advertising activities on social networks, but did not reflect them in her tax returns.
The proceedings were opened based on materials from the State Financial Monitoring Service, which were initiated by employees of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine. The pre-trial investigation is ongoing under Part 3 of Article 212 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine - large-scale tax evasion. The sanction of the article provides for a fine or imprisonment for a term of up to 5 years with confiscation of property. The official statement did not specify the name of the suspect, but law enforcement officers published a screenshot of the Instagram profile, by which users and the media identified the blogger as Sofia Stuzhuk-Levdanska. It is known that she currently lives abroad and continues to be active online, including through cooperation with Russian advertisers.
The BEB notes that the investigation is ongoing, and also reminds of the need to declare income, including income received from abroad and from online platforms.
