98% of Russian companies in the light industry have failed to demonstrate that they have actual production at the declared addresses, announced Revas Iusupov, deputy director of the Center for the Development of Prospective Technologies (ЦРПТ), the operator of the national labeling system “honest brand”.
According to Iusupov, a year and a half experiment, conducted in collaboration with Rospotrebnadzor, aimed at identifying fictitious clothing manufacturers. Out of the 107 companies checked, only two managed to confirm that they are actually engaged in production. In the other cases, residences, hotels or vacant lands were found at the declared addresses, not workshops, personnel, equipment or raw materials.
The companies were selected for verification based on indications of forgery: abnormally low prices, inconsistencies in documents, lack of activity codes (OKVED) associated with the textile industry or failure to announce the start of activity.
“The 98% figure indicates a systemic problem. Legal entities massively resort to tricks to create the appearance of real production,” Iusupov stated.
Currently, about 62 thousand textile companies are registered in the official system in Russia.
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