The organizer of the scheme in the Lviv region introduced tax evaders to the Shlyakh system for $21,000

In the Lviv region, the SBU, together with police and military prosecutors, blocked another channel for transporting evaders, the organizer of which was a 30-year-old entrepreneur from the Rozvadiv community, Oleh Popyk. He was detained while receiving an advance payment of 15 thousand. dollars from the client.

As reported on Monday, January 13, in the Special Prosecutor's Office for Defense of the Western Region, the suspect, a 30-year-old native of the Stryi district, was looking for men who did not have the right to unhindered travel outside Ukraine during the war, and for 21 thousand US dollars he arranged a transfer for them to Poland through one of the checkpoints in the Lviv region.

«It was established that he ensured the entry of information about them into the electronic database «Shlyakh» as drivers of international transportation. Thus, on the basis of fictitious documents, the evaders could easily enter the European Union and remain there», – the prosecutor's office said in a statement.

The smuggler of the evaders was detained while receiving a $15,000 advance. He was reported on suspicion of organizing the illegal smuggling of people across the border (Part 3, Article 332 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine).

Law enforcement officers are not disclosing any more details of the case.

The court chose for him a preventive measure in the form of detention with the right to deposit a bail of more than 150,000 hryvnias. Investigators are also identifying other persons involved in the scheme. The perpetrator faces up to nine years in prison with three years of deprivation of the right to hold certain positions or engage in certain activities and confiscation of property.