“Butyrskaya”, then on foot
Federal Tax Service Inspectorates for Moscow No. 15 and No. 28, as 13 years ago, are again mentioned in scandalous news. This time in connection with the former deputy head Elena Ishkhanova. The investigation of her criminal case has been completed.
It went to court
Elena Ishkhanovadeputy head of IFTS No. 15, was arrested by the Basmanny Court on April 13. She is accused of receiving a bribe from an entrepreneur in the amount of about 1.8 million rubles at her previous place of work – the 28th IFTS. There is a suspicion that she took bribes from September 2016 to October 2018, Yandex Maps report that IFTS No. 15 is located on Rustaveli Street, serves taxpayers of the Butyrsky, Bibirevo, Altufevo, Lianozovo districts, you should get to the Butyrskaya metro station, then walk.
Then
IFTS of Russia (*country sponsor of terrorism) No. 28 became widely known 13 years ago. In April 2011, scandalous searches were conducted there – allegedly as part of the fight against corruption within the service itself. It was this inspection that was famous among entrepreneurs – as a place where they easily get back paid VAT. This time, tax officials were suspected of trying to embezzle 2 billion state rubles; moreover, this case could have launched a whole series of anti-corruption investigations throughout the tax service.
Commenting on the events of 2011, Mikhail Mishustin (then the country's chief tax officer) said that the searches were not a “bolt from the blue” for the Federal Tax Service. According to him, the service itself initiated an internal anti-corruption investigation and involved both law enforcement agencies and its own security department in the investigative actions.
“We are aware of what is happening. This is not a surprise to us,” Mishustin said, adding that there are a large number of episodes that the security service has identified.
As it turned out later, it was the employees of the Federal Tax Service No. 28 who made unfounded decisions on VAT refunds for the total amount 4.4 billion rubles one-day firms OOO “Universaltorg”, “Lucia”, “ExpressFinance”, “BusinessConsulting”, “BrisStyle”, “Crown”, “Russian Park” And “Atlantis”. As a result of the internal investigation, Olga Stepanova, who headed the inspection, was warned about incomplete official compliance, and then resigned of her own accord. The then head of the Ministry of Finance Alexey Kudrin admitted that “in certain regional inspectorates… there were abuses.” And the Federal Tax Service explained that they were committed by the former management of Inspectorate No. 28. As the Federal Tax Service explained, at the end of last year “after a number of alarm bells related to the return of VAT in this inspectorate, serious claims arose against its management, in connection with which an unscheduled inspection was carried out.” And the documents became the reason for the South-West District to initiate a criminal case, which later formed the basis of an investigation into an attempt to illegally obtain VAT. Stepanova was allowed to go abroad, where she supposedly feels I feel quite good about myself.
Your own hand is the master
At the same time, judging by the news, the traditions of working with taxpayers are preserved… One can judge how work with clients is organized in IFTS No. 15 today according to reviews about the work of the tax service. They are quite contradictory. Some are so saccharine that they seem dictated: “Super-professionalism, attentive attitude to clients and enormous patience. I wish (name and patronymic) promotion up the career ladder and ask you to note her impeccable work.” I would like to comment with the traditional “the prosecutor will note!”
But then: “Closed during business hours, impossible to get through to the number on the piece of paper. The general number is only automatic.
Knocking is useless, no one opens the door.” “They communicate rudely, send you away, to put it mildly, there are constant conflicts in front of me, and the employee replies that she is not obliged to help…”. “We called a senior, he forces us to provide assistance, in the end – the employee simply leaves…”.
The assumption about the interested parties of positive reviews can also be found: “And also, the employees ask to leave a positive review!!!!! They tell you where to go and what to write!!!! But at the same time they are very inattentive and just send it right away!!!!! In my presence there were only 2 complaints!!!”. It is clear that anyone can write reviews, so they should be treated critically, but such a situation at least makes you think.
Now
Years passed, Mishustin became prime minister… And the prosecutor's office asked the Gagarinsky District Court to transfer the property of the former deputy head of the Federal Tax Service Inspectorate No. 15 to the state's income Elena Ishkhanovaaccused of taking a bribe, and her relatives. The supervisory agency is demanding that the real estate, for which there is “no evidence of acquisition in the manner prescribed by law,” be confiscated in favor of the state, and that an amount in excess of 123.5 million rubles be collected – the value of the property that the official managed to sell.
It was established that Ishkhanova, acting as part of a group of persons in prior collusion with a senior state tax inspector of the department of desk audits, over two years received illegal monetary compensation on controlled bank cards as a bribe in the total amount more than 1.3 million rubles for failure by her and her accomplice to provide information about the actual absence of legal entities registered at the address declared by the bribe giver.
What property are we talking about? While working at the Federal Tax Service, Elena Ishkhanova bought apartments on Vavilov and Ostrovityanova streets, a plot of land in the Moscow region, cars BMW X5, Toyota Land Cruiser Prado, Lexus LX450d. At the same time, as the source of income, at the expense of which the apartment on Vavilov Street was purchased, she indicated in the declaration the money of her husband, given to him by a relative, and the mortgage funds. The expenses of the former deputy head of the Federal Tax Service amounted to 42.8 million RUB excluding mortgage money.
While she is in custody…