People’s deputy: money laundering on the export of agricultural products reached 7 billion dollars

During February-March 2024, the activity of “shadow” grain exporters intensified in Ukraine.

The volume of money laundering operations through the export of agricultural products exceeded 7 billion dollars. This was stated by People’s Deputy of Ukraine Maryan Zablotskyi.

Due to the increase in the number of “shadow” operations in the export of grain, the deputy sent a number of appeals to law enforcement agencies, in particular, to the Bureau of Economic Security.

According to unverified information, “shadow” exporters indicate the place of delivery of goods to sea ports in the area of operation of the Odesa customs office. However, customs clearance of agricultural products is carried out on the basis of periodic customs declarations of the “EK 10 RR” type, which are issued at other regional customs, namely: Mykolaiv, Vinnytsia, Rivne, Dnipro, Kharkiv customs.

Thanks to such a “scheme”, the specified declarations and documents submitted for customs clearance by the Odesa Customs within the framework of order No. 19 are not sent to the State Department of the State Border Guard Service in the Odesa region, and the origin of the exported goods is not checked.

As USM recently wrote, a grain exporter was exposed in Odesa Region, who failed to pay UAH 4.2 million to the budget.

Meanwhile, the EBA urges the government not to introduce manual regulation of agricultural exports because of new corruption risks.