Electronics supplier Intel Technology has been ordered to pay a 200 million ruble fine after Russian courts upheld a tax authority ruling against its one billion ruble tax deduction scheme.
The company, which belongs to Alikson Group and distributes goods across Russia to major retail stores, failed to overturn the decision after appealing through two court instances.
Details of the tax evasion scheme were reported by the news channel Baza on Telegram.
According to the Federal Tax Service, Intel Technology created a fraudulent network of 20 nominal suppliers that existed only on paper to claim illegal tax deductions.
Tax inspectors found that these shell entities had no warehouses, employed no workers, and conducted no real shipments of goods. By routing fictitious deals through the suppliers, the company generated one billion rubles in fraudulent gains.
Financial losses and reduced fine
Although two court instances ruled in favor of the tax authority, judges reduced the penalty by half to 200 million rubles after evaluating the firm's current financial situation.
Financial results for 2025 show that Intel Technology generated 9.1 billion rubles in revenue. However, the electronics distributor ended the year with a net loss of half a billion rubles.
Previous tax enforcement cases
The ruling against Intel Technology comes alongside other recent tax evasion investigations carried out by the Federal Tax Service.
Tax officials previously caught travel blogger Ilya Varlamov for underpaying his income taxes. Varlamov, who left Russia and claimed to be studying in Germany, paid personal income tax at a reduced rate of 13 percent.
Federal Tax Service auditors established that Varlamov was attending classes remotely rather than residing abroad. As a result of the finding, tax authorities issued him a back-tax demand of 34 million rubles.
Varlamov is listed as a foreign agent by the Russian Ministry of Justice and is included on the register of terrorists and extremists maintained by financial monitoring agency Rosfinmonitoring.
