Five Years and Three Months in Jail for Tax Evasion

Baku Court of Appeal upheld the verdict of the first instance court to imprison Sarwar Museib oglu Ilyasov for a period of 5 years and 3 months for evading the payment of taxes to the state budget totaling 2 million 178.7 thousand manats.

The plaintiff was the preliminary investigation of tax crimes department, which conducted field tax audit of the results at 3 years of activity of the companies AF-Oil (TIN 7700638091), Agridag (0200532811) and Hacadag (4500931661). During the investigation Sarwar Ilyasov took full responsibility for the violation of tax legislation. Although, according to the state register of commercial legal entities (LLC Hacadag), one of the companies was led by another person (Sadiq Latifov).

These companies were registered in 2010-2012 in obscure villages in three regions of the country (Balakan, Guba, Khachmaz). It is noteworthy that on March 16 the Ministry of Taxes published a list of debtor companies to the state budget (http://goo.gl/wUqNpE), where these companies really operate (Yevlakh, Mingachevir and Shirvan).

No information about these companies is known. The Ministry notes that these companies are engaged in buying and selling food and non-food items, including fuel, performed various services and barter transactions. The business community does not know Sarwar Ilyasov.

Experts point out that tax evasion in the amount of about 2.2 million manats means that the total turnover of these three companies is not less than 20 million AZN. The judgments mark the recognition of appropriation and use the tax evasion for private purposes by Ilyasov. -----08B