The State Tax Service of Ukraine has completed a large-scale analytical check of foreign economic operations, resulting in the discovery of an extensive network of over 2,300 companies. According to experts, the activities of these enterprises exhibit signs of systematic capital outflow beyond the state, with the total volume of suspicious financial operations exceeding 198 billion UAH.
This is reported by Business • Media
Features of company activities: disappearance after large transactions
According to the agency, most of these structures practically ceased active operations after conducting large-scale export-import transactions, raising doubts about their real intentions for establishment. The impetus for the investigation was data on violations of currency settlement deadlines received from the National Bank of Ukraine for the period from 2024 to the first quarter of 2026. The majority of suspicious transactions were related to goods exports.
Over 1,200 companies exported products abroad worth more than 176 billion UAH. Additionally, more than half a thousand enterprises conducted import operations totaling 18 billion UAH. According to tax representatives, many companies lost signs of real economic activity after completing these foreign economic transactions.
Connections between enterprises and use of shared data
During the analysis, it was found that 1,643 individuals are listed as managers or owners of risky companies and are simultaneously connected to over 42,000 enterprises across Ukraine. In some cases, one person could be linked to hundreds of legal entities, and seven citizens simultaneously hold the status of founder or manager of more than 500 companies each. Together, they control over 7,000 enterprises. Experts believe that such figures are characteristic of schemes using nominal owners.
Moreover, many companies used shared technical and registration data: identical IP addresses, common reporting submission channels, and mass registration of businesses at the same addresses. In particular, dozens of companies were registered at separate addresses in Kyiv and Lviv, where they conducted transactions of significant amounts. Tax officials believe that such concentration indicates a centralized approach to managing the network of enterprises.
The majority of companies with suspicious activities are concentrated in Kyiv and the Odesa, Kyiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Lviv, Kharkiv, and Zaporizhzhia regions. These regions account for approximately 73% of all identified companies and nearly 78% of the total volume of suspicious operations.
“As a result of the inspections, tax authorities have imposed over 70 billion UAH in fines for violations of currency legislation. Additionally, separate analytical materials have been prepared regarding 557 enterprises, which contain signs of tax evasion and possible money laundering.”
All collected documents have already been forwarded to the Office of the Prosecutor General, which will determine further procedural actions and identify all possible participants in the mentioned schemes.
The tax service also reminds that thanks to the electronic service TAX Control, over 3.5 million UAH in financial sanctions have already been applied to entrepreneurs and companies that received complaints from citizens about possible violations.