Ukrainska Pravda owner Fiala simultaneously finances media in Ukraine, and his shopping center in Crimea pays taxes in russia – media

The companies of the Czech businessman Tomáš Fiala, who owns the Ukrainska Pravda online publication, after the annexation of Crimea, continued to work on the temporarily occupied peninsula and paid taxes to the budget of the russian federation.

Such actions can be regarded as aiding the aggressor state, and this is already Art. 111-2 of the Criminal Code.

Law and Business writes about it.

Commenting on the statement of the Ukrainska Pravda, the publication recalled that Fiala is the final beneficiary of the Arricano group of companies.

And the fact that the group continued illegal business in occupied Simferopol even in 2022 is evidenced by the reports of Arricano Real Estate Plc (registered in Cyprus), published on the London Stock Exchange Interim Statement.

"As of June 30, 2022, the Group works with shopping centers in Kyiv, Simferopol, Zaporizhzhia, and Kryvyi Rih," the report says.

Accordingly, the functional currency of the company is the American dollar, as well as the Ukrainian hryvnia and the russian ruble. And in this connection, the report describes the peculiarities of the tax system of the russian federation as conditions for doing business.

In particular, according to the media, the Arricano group includes Voyage-Crimea LLC. This company acted as the customer for the construction of the second stage of the shopping and entertainment complex Southern Gallery in Simferopol, which was opened in 2014. After the occupation of Crimea, the company was re-registered in accordance with the legislation of the russian federation (TIN 9102055630). It registered with the Federal Tax Service of the russian federation and started paying taxes.

And even after the full-scale invasion of russia into Ukraine, the Cypriot company of Fiala continued to deduct funds to the russian budget, which went to finance the war and the manufacture of weapons, and at the same time to the operation of the media holding in Ukraine - NV, UP, etc.

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