The services detained seven more gang members who were allegedly involved in money laundering and issuing empty invoices. The prosecutor's office calculates that these are 22,000 invoices worth nearly half a billion zlotys. A total of 80 people have already been charged in this case.
The trail of the gang operating in the years 2018-2022 was found during a routine inspection in Wólka Kosowska. The investigation revealed a network of fictitious, interconnected companies that issued empty invoices.
Members of this gang also engaged in money laundering. For this purpose, they used bank accounts to which they deposited currencies as receivables for goods imported from China. It was established that in this way they laundered over PLN 325 million.
Blank invoices for textiles
At the end of August, a Chinese citizen was detained on suspicion of running a fictitious company and issuing fictitious invoices in the amount of over PLN 3.5 million. – Blank invoices documented the purchase and sale of various goods, mainly textiles. The suspect was also charged with money laundering worth approximately PLN 2.5 million,” said the spokeswoman for the head of the National Tax Administration, Junior Asst. Justyna Pasieczyńska.
In the second half of September, officers of the Central Bureau of Investigation from Białystok together with officers of the Masovian Customs and Tax Office in Warsaw detained six people, Polish citizens, three men and three women, who are suspected of issuing nearly 1.4 thousand VAT invoices for a total amount of over PLN 42 millions of zlotys.
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Over 80 people have been charged
– As part of this investigation, the Warsaw regional prosecutor's office brought charges against over 80 suspects. The total number of VAT invoices issued by members of an organized criminal group is over 22,000, and their value is estimated at nearly PLN 500 million. The value of the suspects' property secured in the case is over PLN 85 million, said the spokesman for the Central Bureau of Investigation. Krzysztof Wrześniowski.
All detainees were placed under police supervision and property bail. They were also banned from leaving the country and their passports were confiscated.
These are further arrests in the investigation conducted by officers of the Central Bureau of Investigation and the Customs and Tax Service. The case is still developing. The proceedings are supervised by the Regional Prosecutor's Office in Warsaw.
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