MOSCOW, December 23. / TASS /. The Central District Arbitration Court dismissed former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko’s appeal in cassation from Roshen Company, recognizing the right to accumulate 48.5 million rubles in taxes and fines at his plant in Lipetsk confectionery. This is reported on website to research.
“Leave the decision (judgment) of the court of first instance and the decision of the court of appeal unchanged, and the cassation appeal without satisfaction”, indicates the file.
Previously, it was reported that the Lipetsk Region Arbitration Court and the Nineteenth Appellate Arbitration Court also refused Roshen to challenge the accumulation of 48.5 million rubles in taxes and fines. In March 2017, the Interdistrict Inspection of the Federal Tax Service of Russia for the largest taxpayers in the Lipetsk region forced the Roshen confectionery factory in Lipetsk to pay a backlog of value added tax (VAT) of in the amount of 28.7 million rubles for 2014, penalties in the amount of 8.3 million rubles, as well as a fine of 11.5 million rubles.
Lipetsk Roshen factory is in charge of six cases of VAT accumulation on the construction of a production plant in the village of Kosyrevka, Lipetsk district, Lipetsk region, which was headed by the research and development company production of Nizhny Novgorod Metallimpress. Roshen Corporation has been active since 2015, when it was offered to pay nearly 285.9 million rubles in VAT for the 1st and 4th quarters of 2012, as well as 26.2 million rubles in penalties for this tax. and a fine of 49.5 million rubles. Since then, the total amount disputed in six cases has risen to 1 billion rubles.
The Roshen case
Roshen Corporation is one of the assets of former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko; it includes several confectionery factories located in Kiev, Kremenchuk, Vinnitsa, as well as in Klaipeda (Lithuania) and Bonbonetti Choco (Hungary). The company produces around 450,000 tons of products of 350 types of confectionery per year.
In 2015, criminal proceedings were opened against its leaders in Russia for fraud with budgetary funds. The Basmanny Court in Moscow seized the property of the Lipetsk factory, namely the warehouse of finished products, four workshops, an auxiliary building and seven land with an area of more than 700 thousand square meters. mr. All the employees of this factory were made redundant, production was shut down.
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