Yamal businessman Sitnikov was fined 178 million for tax evasion

The businessman will pay about 1.5 million

The Novy Urengoy City Court made a decision in the case of tax evasion against businessman Oleg Sitnikov. The entrepreneur was given a large fine.

The court found Sitnikov guilty of tax evasion of 178 million rubles. This amount also includes the concealment of the property of Magistral LLC. According to the court decision, the businessman was fined 1.45 million rubles.

Previously, the media reported in detail about the tax fraud trials of companies associated with Oleg Sitnikov. In particular, the Federal Tax Service made claims for a billion rubles to Firm Max LLC, which operated under the control of a Yamal businessman.

Let us recall that the criminal case against Oleg Sitnikov under Part 2 of Art. 199 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation “Tax evasion” was introduced in 2021. In 2022, the Novy Urengoy City Court found him guilty of tax evasion on an especially large scale and illegal entrepreneurship involving the extraction of income on an especially large scale. The illegal actions of the actual manager led to the unjustified application of tax deductions and the budget of the Russian Federation did not receive taxes from several commercial firms amounting to 1 billion rubles.

Then the court sentenced the culprit to 4 years of suspended imprisonment with a probationary period of 4 years and a fine of 50 thousand rubles.