Officers of the National Revenue Administration detained another person in the investigation into issuing fictitious VAT invoices, among others, for transport and marketing services in order to underestimate tax liabilities. So far, nine people have been charged.
– A suspected 45-year-old woman was detained in the Otwock district. The Regional Prosecutor’s Office in Warsaw, supervising this investigation, charged the woman with participation in an organized criminal group and the so-called invoice crime, Maciej Czarnecki, the press officer of the Podlasie KAS, informed on Friday.
Such charges carry a penalty of up to 25 years in prison. At the request of the investigators, the court arrested the suspect for three months. Czarnecki added that telephones and electronic data carriers used in criminal activities were secured in the woman’s apartment.
Broken group
In November last year, Podlaskie KAS and the CBA informed about a joint action to break up a criminal group whose members are suspected of issuing over 2.8 thousand. fake VAT invoices, e.g. for transport and marketing services, for almost PLN 71 million.
According to investigators, the group was active in 2018-2020. Among the eight people detained at that time were both those suspected of introducing false VAT invoices into circulation, as well as those who purchased such “blank” invoices in order to reduce the VAT due as part of legal business activity. State budget losses are estimated at around PLN 12 million.
Otwock Water Supply and Sewage CompanyArtur Węgrzynowicz, tvnwarszawa.pl
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