The Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine has dropped the criminal proceedings into the possible tax evasion by member of the Vidrodzhennia deputy group Vitaliy Khomutynnik, the PGO’s press secretary, Larysa Sarhan, told Interfax-Ukraine.
“Last week the criminal proceedings were closed,” Sarhan told the agency on November 6.
She said during the inquiry the documents were presented, which confirmed Khomutynnik’s payment of tax liabilities before the budget.
It became known in August 2017 that the Kyiv Pechersky District Court granted the request of the prosecutor and ordered unscheduled documentary checks on the deputy on compliance with the requirements of tax, currency and other legislation for the period from 1998 to 2016. The court provided the Prosecutor General’s Office with access to the declarations of Khomutynnik for 2015 and 2016.
According to the prosecutor, the lawmaker declared in 2015 Hr 32.7 million, $570,000 and 850,000 euro in cash, 88 valuable items of movable effects.
On September 5, Khomutynnik decided to leave the post of the head of the Vidrodzhennia Party’s deputy group in the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine for the time of inquiry by the Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine and the verification of the State Fiscal Service of its declarations from 1998 to 2016.
