The court arrested the bank accounts and products of the Brocard store network. Russian owners tried to sell business after the invasion

The court arrested the bank accounts and products of the Brocard perfume stores for suspicion of tax evasion. The Office of the Prosecutor General and the Bureau of Economic Security have declared the arrest of corporate rights of the Russian network of perfume stores and its assets. This is stated in the messages of the agencies. Video of the day arrest is related to suspicions in tax evasion for more than UAH 50 million. According to Liga.

net, it is a network of cosmetics stores Brocard Russian Tatiana Volodina. It is the owner of the Russian network L'Tetual. The arrest was imposed on 700,000 units, bank accounts of UAH 420 million and corporate rights of companies Brokard Ukraine and Egzagon LLC. The total amount of the arrested assets is UAH 881 000. According to the Babe analysts, one of these companies, which deals with the import and sale of cosmetics and perfumes, registered tax invoices with low cost.

The company also hid the real sales. According to the investigation, this company deliberately evaded the value added tax by UAH 33 million. Law enforcement officers also found violations of the retail network. It seems that retailers formed an artificial tax credit for advertising services from the distributor. This, in turn, led to a decrease in the amount of VAT tax liability by UAH 17. 8 million.

At the beginning of June, the Association of Retailers of Ukraine reported that the French Holding Philippe Benacin acquired 100% of ownership from two leading Ukrainian companies operating in cosmetic and parfumeral sphere: Brokard-Ukraine LLC and Egzagon LLC. The report stressed that the agreement was completed on May 23, 2022, which was informed by the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine of the AMCU. Later it became known that the Antimonopoly Committee did not allow this agreement.