Investigators have expanded the probe into fraud at the «Dolyna» customs post by conducting searches in the offices of 11 car importers that understated customs duties using forged documents and fake European certificates. During investigative actions on August 6, law enforcement officers seized stamps, handwritten notes, and about a hundred pages of documents confirming the existence of an organized network of affiliated companies.
According to the investigation, the exposed car import scheme covers companies with multi-billion turnovers registered mostly in Rivne and the Lviv region. Among the defendants in the case are entities such as Yuakargo, Zakhid Avto Trust, Yuinvest Avto Grup, Place Kar, Avto Treyder, and others. Most of them share common directors, regularly change owners and legal addresses, and have already been repeatedly held liable under Article 485 of the Customs Code of Ukraine.
Tax evasion was carried out through two main methods. The first involved the use of fake EUR.1 certificates allegedly issued by customs authorities in Poland (Przemysl) and Slovakia (Michalovce) to obtain a preferential customs rate. The second was the systematic understatement of car customs values in declarations compared to actual EU export documents.
In particular, the head of Yuakargo, Ruslan Kordonets, has already been fined over UAH 2.8 million for importing dozens of cars using falsified documents. Similar violations were discovered at Zakhid Avto Trust, whose former director was fined UAH 2.7 million for importing 52 vehicles. Yuinvest Avto Grup disguised the actual purchase price—for example, an Audi Q5 crossover was cleared in Ukraine for EUR 17,000 despite a real European price of EUR 27,300.
An analysis of the companies’ financial statements points to signs of operation as transit platforms. Place Kar, registered near Lviv, reported a revenue of UAH 2.64 billion for 2025 with a staff of only five employees and practically zero profitability. Similar anomalous figures were recorded for Avto Treyder (UAH 2.18 billion in revenue with 5 workers) and Modal (UAH 656 million in revenue with 3 employees).
The investigation into the operations of the «Dolyna» customs post is ongoing. Law enforcement is gathering evidence to combine the administrative episodes regarding document forgery and the organizational structure of the exposed cluster into criminal proceedings with formal suspicions announced to key figures.