A network of 530 sole traders for second-hand: ESBU and the National Police have uncovered a scheme to fragment the EconomClass chain’s business

A network of 530 sole traders for second-hand: ESBU and the National Police have uncovered a scheme to fragment the EconomClass chain’s business

A very important story.

A network of 530 individual entrepreneurs (IEs) was needed by the owners of the nationwide second-hand chain EconomClass to build their business. But the time for such formats of work is gradually coming to an end. And that’s great.

Today many have already written about the high-profile operation by the ESBU, the National Police, and the Prosecutor General’s Office targeting business splitting, so I will only add a couple of important points.

This case is not just another exposure of “business splitting.”
Thanks to the coordinated work of the ESB and the National Police, all stages of the nationwide criminal group’s activity were documented.
And don’t let it bother you that the business was connected with used goods.
Believe me, the volumes of money circulating there are simply astronomical.
Based solely on the proven episodes, the underpayment to the budget amounts to about a million dollars.

One of the main organizers is considered by investigators to be a Ukrainian citizen who mostly resides in China — Mykhailo Hurskyi.

He is the owner of the key company in this scheme, LLC “ECONOMKLASSZAKHID.”
In addition, Hurskyi owns a whole pool of other companies.

Together with the director of this company, Mariya Ilchuk, chief accountant Andriy Zozulevych, and IT specialist Anatoliy Paliy, Hurskyi developed and built the operational architecture for EconomClass stores across Ukraine through controlled IEs.

IT specialist Paliy created the software through which sales in the stores were controlled and carried out.
He developed software that allows store employees to perform selective fiscalization of transactions depending on consumer behavior.

Chief accountant Zozulevych coordinated and controlled the cash flow of the IE network, as well as all bank cards of these IEs, which were effectively in the hands of this group.
And so it went.
Stores were opened every month, and cash was withdrawn from the cards in a river-like flow.
But...

Detectives of the ESBU and operatives of the National Police’s DSI, during dozens of searches that took place and are still ongoing today, obtained irrefutable evidence of the network’s scheme-based operations.

And this is a powerful signal to all fans of business splitting.
End such activities. At any moment, the ESBU and the National Police may come to you as well.

Possibly even tomorrow.