A waste-disposal company in Chelny has been charged with evading 37 million in taxes.

      The co‑founders of Ekospetsservice, a company engaged in the collection and disposal of waste, are suspected of evading VAT and profit tax in the amount of more than 37 million rubles. According to the investigation, in 2021–2023 they submitted information to the tax inspectorate about fictitious transactions with around four dozen companies, which allowed the businessmen to save on payments. The forgery was uncovered by the Tatarstan branch of the Federal Tax Service together with the Department for Economic Security and Anti‑Corruption of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Tatarstan. According to the Unified State Register of Legal Entities (EGRUL), this concerns a company that has recently changed its registration from Naberezhnye Chelny to Kazan. Ekospetsservice operated in the auto city from 2015 to 2023; the end of that period corresponds to the dates reflected in police and Investigative Committee reports. In 2023 two Chelny co‑founders transferred the company to a Kazan entrepreneur — by that time they had already registered a new company in Chelny, Ekospetsservice NK, whose main activity became the collection of hazardous waste. The legal address of Ekospetsservice in Kazan has also been deemed unreliable. The claims by the tax inspectorate filed against Ekospetsservice in May of this year amounted to 55.1 million rubles, not including assessed fines and penalties, which are recorded in the EGRUL data at 24.2 million rubles.