1xBet is suspected of tax evasion on a particularly large scale

The Bureau of economic security of Ukraine suspects LLC "your betting company", which received licenses for the work of the bookmaker 1xBet in Ukraine, of tax evasion on a particularly large scale. Delo.ua an earlier investigation by InformNapalm revealed that 1XBet is likely to continue operating in Russia.

The main court granted the Economic Security Bureau temporary access to 1xBet's licensing files so that detectives could analyze them.Employees of the Bureau launched a pre-trial investigation. They suspect that LLC" your betting company " deliberately evaded paying income tax and paying funds for obtaining licenses. This probably led to the fact that the budget of Ukraine did not receive funds in particularly large amounts. Details

First, detectives of the Bureau of Economic Security sent a request to the commission for the regulation of gambling and lotteries (Krail) to get copies of the license files of LLC "your betting company". They wanted to check on the basis of what documents the companies issued the license.

The region refused to provide documents.

Then the Bureau of Economic Security appealed to the court, which decided to grant access to the requested papers.

After analyzing the documents, the detectives previously came to the conclusion that the problem may be not only in obtaining a license, but also in tax evasion. The Prosecutor General's Office is involved in the investigation, and the papers are still being studied.

On July 21, an investigation by InformNapalm was published, which showed that the 1xBet bookmaker continues to operate in Russia, although it has a license to work in Ukraine.

DOU made a request to the gambling and Lottery Regulatory Commission to find out on what basis the bookmaker continues its activities. It turned out that according to the documents in 1xBet, everything is allegedly in order, and the rest of the details are out of sight of the relevant Commission.

A petition demanding to ban the Russian bookmaker 1xBet from working in Ukraine on the President's website has received the necessary number of votes for consideration. In particular, it says that Navasard Limited — the owner of the trademark — according to Forbes belongs to Russian citizens Roman Semiokhin, Sergey Karshkov and Dmitry Kazorin. In addition, the author of the petition claims that TBT LLC does not conduct activities on the site. 1xbet.ua for which it has received a license, but conducts it on the territory of Ukraine through an unlicensed website 1xbet.com it also serves citizens of the Russian Federation and Belarus.