The volumes of funds illegally withdrawn from Russia for the crimes identified by the customs authorities are decreasing. In 2020, the amount of non-refunded from abroad and capital withdrawal amounted to almost 270 billion rubles. This was stated in an interview with Vedomosti by the deputy head of the Federal Customs Service (FCS) Ruslan Davydov.
“We have outlived schemes using forged documents on transactions that have never been concluded in reality. It is impossible to submit a fake declaration – all documents are digitized and are in the database of customs declarations, ”Davydov said.
Illegal capital withdrawal decreased by almost 4.5 times in six months of 2021 – to 44.4 billion rubles. compared to 198.8 billion rubles. in the first half of 2020, 86 criminal cases were initiated under Art. 193 and 193.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (evasion of return to Russia of export earnings and from the return of advances paid for undelivered goods; transfer of funds to non-residents using forged documents) in the amount of 16.3 billion rubles – almost half as much as in the first half of 2020 – 170 cases for 34.7 billion rubles.
In other words, this is the amount of money not returned to Russia for goods supplied for export (services rendered, work performed), advances paid by importers abroad for unsupplied goods (unsupplied services, unfulfilled work), and funds illegally transferred to non-residents (with the presentation of unreliable information about the grounds, purposes and purpose of the transfer).
In general, in 2020, the amount of illegal capital withdrawal detected by customs amounted to 269.9 billion rubles. The customs authorities opened 241 criminal cases in the amount of 63.6 billion rubles.
The problem of evading the return of foreign exchange earnings and advances for undelivered goods to Russia, multiple underestimation of the cost of goods, fraud in the export of timber remains urgent, Davydov explained.
“The main violations in the export of timber are when goods are exported under the guise of timber, which is not subject to duties, for which payments must be paid. They also use schemes with an underestimation of the customs value, withdraw capital abroad, ”said Davydov.
“Unscrupulous entrepreneurs sell timber from Siberia and the Far East to affiliated persons in China,“ half ”the contracts, receive cash there, and for this they buy consumer goods and take them to us – this is such a cycle,” the deputy head of the FCS explained.
From July until the end of the year, the government introduced new duties of 10% on the export of a number of processed timber with a moisture content of more than 22% in order to limit the export of timber, contain price increases and encourage companies to produce goods with high added value.
.