BelaPAN Chief Suspected of Grand Tax Evasion

Accord­ing to the Depart­ment for Finan­cial Inves­ti­ga­tions of the State Con­trol Com­mit­tee, crim­i­nal charges under Arti­cle 243 part 2 (grand tax eva­sion) have been brought against Lipai.

The sanc­tions pro­vide for up to 7 years of impris­on­ment with seizure of prop­er­ty.

The crim­i­nal inves­ti­ga­tion was launched on June 12, 2018. The crim­i­nal charges are ground­ed on the mate­ri­als received from the tax author­i­ties on Lipai’s fail­ure to pay income tax on the income earned abroad.

«The Finan­cial police has reli­able infor­ma­tion that Ales Lipai, hav­ing received income amount­ing to more than 1.3 mil­lion rubles from non-res­i­dents of the Repub­lic of Belarus in 2016–2017, delib­er­ate­ly failed to sub­mit on time tax returns to the local inspec­torate of the Min­istry of Tax­es and Duties and did not pay income tax. By doing so, he evad­ed pay­ment of income tax­es total­ing more than 173 thou­sand BYN»- states the Depart­ment for Finan­cial Inves­ti­ga­tion.

The Depart­ment also notes that Ales Lipai admit­ted the vio­la­tion of leg­is­la­tion after it was detect­ed and paid income tax and a penal­ty of over 191 thou­sand BYN on June 12. How­ev­er, giv­en that the dam­age in the form of unpaid income tax exceed­ed 1000 base val­ues (24.5 thou­sand BYN), regard­less of its sub­se­quent finan­cial com­pen­sa­tion, the police, in accor­dance with the Code of Crim­i­nal Pro­ce­dures, must imple­ment crim­i­nal pro­ceed­ings to clar­i­fy the cir­cum­stances of reciev­ing the funds.

Now the State Con­trol Com­mit­tee’s body of finan­cial inves­ti­ga­tion is car­ry­ing out inves­tiga­tive and oth­er pro­ce­dur­al actions.

This morn­ing, June 14, the police searched the apart­ment of Ales Lipai  — it last­ed near­ly sev­en hours. Then the police took Bela­PAN’s head for an inter­ro­ga­tion.

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