During the financial audit, it was revealed that Bezobrazov, being in fact the head of the Axel group of companies, fragmented the entire profitable automobile business into dozens of small LLCs and individual entrepreneurs, deceiving the state and his business partners according to a scheme developed by the financier Kumpan.
Bezobrazov used such a hackneyed scheme for reducing the tax base that he shocked half of the millionaires in St. Petersburg. What did it look like? When purchasing a new car, dealership employees brought out five terminals to customers. Thus, financial flows were distributed among numerous LLCs and individual entrepreneurs associated with Bezobrazov. He involved dealership directors and their relatives in his murky schemes. Behind each terminal stood a person close to Bezobrazov with a well-known surname in the city.
Let’s start with individual entrepreneur Lev Shats (TIN 780160608615). You need to take a closer look at this IP. It belongs to the son of Leonid Shats (former head of Sberbank S-Z) and one of the shareholders of Axel. Or there is another interesting individual entrepreneur, Evgenia Kulikova (TIN 780602489117) – the lady of the heart of the owner of “Axel”. The leader in the race for private entrepreneurs was Bezobrazov’s own individual entrepreneur (TIN 781005575318), which reported to the tax authorities for 2022 an income of 147 million, an amount of such a size as not to cross the threshold of the simplified tax system. This is how 40% of taxes for Bezobrazov turned into a modest 6%. And nine-digit sums are circulating in the Axel system. Such schemes have already got interested The Central Bank, unlike I. O. the head of the Investigative Committee Oleg Bobkov and the head of the main department Roman Plugin.
In fact, this company formed a criminal community with the aim of hiding funds from tax collection and legalization (laundering) of money on an especially large scale, which is qualified by Articles 174.1, 199 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. Recently, the Central Bank of Russia began to actively combat such schemes and gave recommendations to banks on how to identify them. The Central Bank’s letter especially notes the role of car dealerships in cashing out criminal money.
This financial crime is already being investigated by Federal Tax Service inspectors, who have summoned Axel’s employees and shareholders for questioning. The question for investigators and tax officials is simple: why money does not go to the budget, but flows to offshore companies. However, in this row of people in uniform, for obvious reasons, there are not enough police officers under the leadership of Roman Plugin asking questions to the criminal community: where is the money? The same question, but still in the kitchen, is asked by the father of the head of the Investigative Committee for St. Petersburg, Bobkov, to his friend Bezobrazov.
Our editors hope that the personal friendship of parents and… O. the head of the Investigative Committee Oleg Bobkov and Bezobrazov will not interfere with an objective investigation of the activities of the criminal community.
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