Abusing their official position and acting in the interests of third parties, employees of the Kivertsi branch of the Lutsk united state tax inspection caused losses to state interests in the amount of 2 million 220 thousand 566 hryvnias, Zhanna Vorobiova, press secretary of the Volyn Oblast prosecutor, told the Western Information Corporation on July 3.\nThe Volyn Oblast prosecutor's office has opened a criminal case against employees of the Kivertsi branch of the Lutsk united state tax inspection on the grounds of a crime provided for by Article 364, Part 2, and Article 366, Part 2 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.\nIt has been established that the tax officials, intentionally using their official position and acting in the interests of officials of the small private enterprise "Feniks" from the district center of Kivertsi, contrary to the requirements of the tax service, entered deliberately false information into official documents.\nAs a result, state officials adopted an illegal decision to write off, as hopeless, the tax debt of the small private enterprise "Feniks."\nConsiderable losses were caused to state interests, since funds in the amount of 2,220,566 hryvnias did not reach the budget.\nCommenting on the situation that has arisen, the newly appointed prosecutor of Volyn, Mykola Frantovskyi, emphasized: "The duty of all citizens, and entrepreneurs in particular, is to honestly pay taxes, and the duty of tax authority employees is to take care of filling the state treasury. That is how it is done throughout the civilized world. Whose interests were such tax officials defending, having serious state powers – the state's or dishonest entrepreneurs'?"\nA pre-trial investigation is being conducted into the fact of the tax officials' abuses.