Employees of the Department under the Prosecutor General's Office have uncovered another case of embezzlement of budget funds through the Soliq Mobile application.

It was found that three citizens organized Telegram groups under various names and engaged in online sales of cashback amounts on purchase receipts belonging to 7 companies. According to the scheme, individuals were sold cashback at 1%, and persons included in the social protection registry — at 12%.

At the same time, these companies actually did not carry out any financial and economic operations. The fraudsters issued fictitious electronic invoices, according to which goods and services worth a total of 3.3 trillion soums ($260 million) were supposedly purchased.

Also, through online cash registers, they processed fictitious receipts of money from sales and issued cash receipts, which were then sold to citizens.

As a result, through the Soliq Mobile application, cashback was accrued to 211,584 citizens for a total amount of 28.5 billion soums ($2.6 million), of which 3.2 billion soums ($290,000) had already been paid out.

A criminal case has been initiated under Articles 167 (Embezzlement) and 228 (Forgery of documents) of the Criminal Code of Uzbekistan, and an investigation is underway.

Recall that the Tax Committee suspended the payment of over 100 billion soums ($9 million) in social cashback. More than 200,000 people were added to the register of suspicious buyers who, according to the inspection authorities, attempted to obtain VAT refunds using fake receipts.

Source: uznews.uz