{"id":8385,"date":"2026-11-10T18:12:30","date_gmt":"2026-11-10T16:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zakvisnyk.com.ua\/2026\/11\/10\/price-marked-up-by-100-percent-at-the-uzhhorod-checkpoint-customs-officials-seized-huawei-industrial-inverters-worth-26-3-million-hryvnias\/"},"modified":"2026-11-10T18:12:37","modified_gmt":"2026-11-10T16:12:37","slug":"price-marked-up-by-100-percent-at-the-uzhhorod-checkpoint-customs-officials-seized-huawei-industrial-inverters-worth-26-3-million-hryvnias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zakvisnyk.com.ua\/en\/2026\/11\/10\/price-marked-up-by-100-percent-at-the-uzhhorod-checkpoint-customs-officials-seized-huawei-industrial-inverters-worth-26-3-million-hryvnias\/","title":{"rendered":"Price marked up by 100 percent: At the \u201cUzhhorod\u201d checkpoint, customs officials seized Huawei industrial inverters worth 26.3 million hryvnias"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>A 46-year-old entrepreneur from the Carpathian region declared solar equipment from the Czech Republic worth 1 million euros, while the actual value was 518,000 euros. The shipment was detained, and the materials were handed over to the Economic Crime Bureau.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Inspectors from the Zakarpattia Customs Office at the Ukrainian-Slovak border thwarted an attempt to manipulate the customs value declaration for a large shipment of energy equipment. At the \u201cUzhhorod\u2013Vyshne Nemetske\u201d border crossing, 76 high-power industrial inverters with a total value of over 26.3 million hryvnias were seized.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Transcarpathian Customs press service officially reported the detected customs violation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The price-inflation scheme: why the price was inflated<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The violation was detected during a customs inspection of a truck transporting high-tech equipment for solar power plants\u201476 three-phase <strong>Huawei SUN2000-330KTL-H1,<\/strong> each with a capacity of 330 kW:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>The entrepreneur\u2019s declaration:<\/strong> The consignee was a 46-year-old entrepreneur from the Ivano-Frankivsk region who imported the equipment from the Czech Republic. In the preliminary customs declaration and accompanying invoices, he listed the total price of the shipment as <strong>1 million euros<\/strong>;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Actual data from the seller:<\/strong> During verification procedures and international communication, customs officials determined that the equipment had actually been purchased for exactly half the price\u2014<strong>518,000 euros<\/strong> (as confirmed directly by the Czech shipping company);<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Purpose of the manipulation:<\/strong> artificially inflating the invoice value of imported goods in documents is typically used for subsequent schemes involving the fraudulent creation of VAT tax credits, the illegal transfer of non-cash funds abroad, or tax optimization.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Seizure of equipment worth 26.3 million UAH and the BEB\u2019s response<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Based on the provision of false information regarding the actual value of the goods, a report on a violation of customs regulations was drawn up against the entrepreneur from the Carpathian region under <strong>Part 1 of Article 483 of the Customs Code of Ukraine<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The entire shipment\u201476 Huawei industrial inverters with an estimated value of <strong>26.3 million hryvnias<\/strong>\u2014has been temporarily seized and placed in a customs warehouse pending a court decision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The penalty under this article entails a fine ranging from 50 to 100 percent of the value of the items directly involved in the offense, with their mandatory confiscation as state revenue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In addition, customs officials forwarded a report on the unlawful act to the Territorial Office of the Economic Security Bureau (ESB) in Zakarpattia Oblast for legal classification under <strong>Part 2 of Article 201-3 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine<\/strong> (smuggling of goods on a large scale).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/customs.gov.ua\/zakarpatska-mitnitsia\" target=\"_blank\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/customs.gov.ua\/zakarpatska-mitnitsia\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Transcarpathian Customs.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" data-id=\"8382\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zakvisnyk.com.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/899712547_1170738132559446_932349673744859575_n-768x1024.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8382\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zakvisnyk.com.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/899712547_1170738132559446_932349673744859575_n-768x1024-1.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.zakvisnyk.com.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/899712547_1170738132559446_932349673744859575_n-225x300.webp 225w, https:\/\/www.zakvisnyk.com.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/899712547_1170738132559446_932349673744859575_n-1152x1536.webp 1152w, https:\/\/www.zakvisnyk.com.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/899712547_1170738132559446_932349673744859575_n.webp 1440w\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" data-id=\"8383\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zakvisnyk.com.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/899861686_1170738135892779_1328672481403831053_n-768x1024.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8383\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zakvisnyk.com.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/899861686_1170738135892779_1328672481403831053_n-768x1024-1.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.zakvisnyk.com.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/899861686_1170738135892779_1328672481403831053_n-225x300.webp 225w, https:\/\/www.zakvisnyk.com.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/899861686_1170738135892779_1328672481403831053_n-1152x1536.webp 1152w, https:\/\/www.zakvisnyk.com.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/899861686_1170738135892779_1328672481403831053_n.webp 1440w\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 46-year-old entrepreneur from the Carpathian region declared solar equipment from the Czech Republic worth 1 million euros, while the actual value was 518,000 euros. The shipment was detained, and the materials were handed over to the Economic Crime Bureau. 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