Companies registered “to poles”, VAT losses at 66 million. Six people will be in court

Six people – Polish, India and Ukraine citizens accused by the Regional Prosecutor's Office in Łódź for participating in an organized criminal group will be before the court. In connection with its activities, tax frauds were over PLN 66 million.

The indictment is the result of findings in the investigation conducted by the Economic Crime Department of the Regional Prosecutor's Office in Łódź and the Łódź Customs and Tax Office. According to a spokesman for the Regional Prosecutor's Office in Łódź, prosecutor Krzysztof Kopania, the evidence gathered indicates that the organized criminal group covered in various cities in Poland – among others in Warsaw, Łódź and other places in the Łódź Voivodeship. Two companies with its registered office in Wola Zarazzyńska played a key role in the procedure, headed by the citizen's indictment India.

Companies registered for so -called poles

The PR spokesman in Łódź informs in a statement that the mechanism of committing crimes consisted in the fact that, using the activities of intermediaries, registered on the so -called poles – mostly Moldova citizens – an Indian citizen standing behind key companies, imported goods in the form of fabrics, knitwear and yarn directly with China and India. The goods were transported from the port, among others, in Hamburg directly to the warehouses of companies in Łódź, Wola Zaradzyńska and Sieradz. “The intermediaries involved in the practice of the so -called buffers. They were recorded as VAT taxpayers, but they did not actually conduct business activity. They created a string of” suppliers “and” recipients “, while it was intended to pretend to be actually actually economic trading. These companies only introduced on legal circulation so -called empty invoices that were to show trading of the goods that did not actually take place,” describes the prosecutor kick.

66 million zlotys depletion of VAT

The Kopania prosecutor also informs that a chain of domestic entities was built to import goods, whose role was to show allegedly implemented supplies. “All these activities aimed at creating the appearance of national trading and for artificial creation of input VAT with a rate of 23%. The creation of a chain of fictitious invoices with a demonstrated fictitious input VAT, was aimed at compensating in the leading VAT companies due to domestic supplies. The whole scheme combining the actual import of the goods and artificially generated national invoices was created in the national invoices. the purpose of achieving tax benefits, i.e. underestimating the tax liability in goods and services. All accused are punishable by up to 25 years imprisonment.