The Financial Monitoring Agency (FMA) has put businessman Mikhail Adamovich Boyko on the wanted list.
He is accused of committing crimes under Article 245, Part 3 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan (Tax evasion) and Article 218, Part 3 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan (Legalisation/laundering of money and other property obtained by criminal means).
As reported by the Almaty department of the FMA, Mr Boyko did not pay corporate income tax from fish-exporting enterprises, which caused damage to the state amounting to over 400 million tenge.
It appears that this concerns Okmin LLP, which specialises in the wholesale trade of fish and fish products.
As the editorial board of the FBRK has discovered, the company was registered in December 2004. Since then, very little has been known about the taxes paid.
According to the kompra.kz service data, 'Okmin' paid only seven tenge in tax contributions in 2017.
The company's tax arrears amount to around 3 million tenge.
Mikhail Boyko, who is the head and founder of the partnership, has enforcement proceedings debts of approximately 11 million tenge and tax arrears of around 7 million tenge.
Furthermore, Mr Boyko once owned Lotyes LLP and Zander Trade LLP. The companies were liquidated back in 2020 after the state revenue department for the Almaly district filed a relevant lawsuit.
Lotyes LLP had been involved in the wholesale trade of food, beverages and tobacco products since 2013. Zander Trade LLP, registered in 2011, specialised in general trade 'without any specific definition'.
On the portal of the bodies of legal statistics and special records, it is stated that Mikhail Boyko has been on the wanted list since 13 January 2016.
Screenshot from the website qamqor.gov.kz
For providing reliable information about the whereabouts of the wanted person, the FMA promises a reward and guarantees anonymity.
Information can be reported to the Department of Economic Investigations (DEI) for Almaty city:
+7-701-218-05-23, +7-701-121-47-65 - for tracing individuals,
+7-7272-79-29-56 - duty office.