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24.09.2021

Actions of The Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine in respect of the client have been declared illegal in court


Our lawyers have successfully stood upon the rights of the company engaged in the business of recyclable materials trade, within the case on binding the Prosecutor General’s Office to register criminal proceedings and to carry out pre-trial investigation upon the facts of illegal actions of the tax authorities’ officials against the client and breach of the taxpayers’ rights.

The situation arose from initiating by the financial investigations authorities of criminal proceedings upon, in their opinion, tax evasion in especially big amount by a group of companies. Such criminal proceedings had resulted in destabilization of the client's business by means of multiple searches and protraction of investigation. Generally, the mentioned criminal proceedings had been initiated without any due grounds and reasons and had been actually purposed to bring pressure on taxpayers and to cease their business activity under the guise of investigatory actions.  

Considering such acts as patently illegal, the client addressed to the Prosecutor General’s Office with an application on criminal offence upon obstruction of legal business activities of the client, done by the tax authorities’ officials using their official position, as well as upon abuse of power by them. However, the Prosecutor General’s Office denied, in violation of law, to register the criminal proceedings based on the application on criminal offence.

Thus, our specialists launched judicial appeals against unlawful denial of the Prosecutor General’s Office to register the criminal proceedings. As a result of such appeals the Court declared illegal the actions of the Prosecutor General’s Office, as well as ruled and bound the Prosecutor General’s Office to initiate criminal proceedings and launch pre-trial investigation upon the facts of illegal actions of the tax authorities’ officials guilty of breach of the taxpayers’ rights.

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