UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 11, 2015. 210 tax crime reports were made to Sverdlovsk Region division of Russia’s Investigative Committee in nine months of 2015.

According to the committee’s press service, 69 criminal lawsuits were instituted as a result. 34 cases involve charges of tax evasion by a company (Article 199 of Russia’s Criminal Code). All in all, the committee handled 95 tax crime-related suits between January and September 2015.

‘39 suits were completed within this period and either placed with the court for hearing or dismissed after the accused had paid all their fines and penalties in full. This year, over 23.5m RUR were awarded in damages on court cases. Our investigative officers had 44.5m RUR worth of the accused parties’ assets frozen. Also, the amount of repaired damage on dismissed cases came to over 256m RUR,’ the press service says.