One of the criminal proceedings being investigated by the Investigation Committee, under the control of the Department for Combating Economic Crimes of the Prosecutor General’s Office, has obtained actual data regarding four individual entrepreneurs and the head of a LLC engaged in retail trade, acting as part of the group, avoiding to paying taxes in particularly large amounts during 2023-2024 concealed the subject of taxation of the mentioned individual entrepreneurs and LLC and included distorted data in tax calculations submitted to the tax authority.

Taking into account that there is sufficient evidence in the criminal proceedings indicating that an offence has been committed, on 25 March 2025 the prosecutor made a decision on initiating public criminal proceedings against individual entrepreneurs and the actual head of the LLC under Article 290, Part 3, Points 1 and 2 of the Criminal Code (Failure to pay taxes in particularly large amounts by a group of persons acting in conspiracy).

On 10 September 2025, damages amounting to 80 million drams of the damage caused by the state were reimbursed as a result of prosecutorial action.

Preliminary investigation is ongoing.