The Prosecutor's Office of the Volyn Region has opened a criminal case on the fact of abuse of official position and tax evasion by officials of the communal enterprise "Lutskvodokanal," Vasyl Kurenda, deputy prosecutor of the Volyn Region, told the Western Information Corporation. \n \n \nThe grounds for opening the criminal case were the activities of the managers of "Lutskvodokanal," which resulted in serious consequences and the failure of considerable sums of money to reach the budget. \n \nBack in early August of last year, the enterprise concluded a purchase-and-sale agreement on the terms of a commodity credit, under which one of the private firms allegedly sold pipes to "Lutskvodokanal" for almost 2 million hryvnias. For the use of the credit, the borrower was supposed to pay more than another million hryvnias. Subsequently, officials of "Lutskvodokanal" allegedly sold the pipes to another private enterprise, for which they immediately received a promissory note. \n \nA similar scheme was repeated at the enterprise in October 2004 as well. This time they resold the pipes for almost 5 million hryvnias. \n \nIn reality, as the prosecutor's office suggests, no one sold or bought any pipes, although both transactions were reflected in the accounting and tax records of the communal enterprise. This led to an unjustified overstatement of the tax credit, as a result of which almost half a million hryvnias failed to reach the budget. The losses caused to "Lutskvodokanal" itself by the described actions are estimated at more than 2.5 million hryvnias. \n