Warsaw. Paweł Wietnamczyk in custody. Allegations for the head of the criminal group from Wólka Kosowska

The court decided on temporary detention for Viet Ha. N. nickname Paweł Wietnamczyk, suspected of managing an organized criminal group operating in Wólka Kosowska. The case is related to tax offenses and falsification of VAT invoices for a total amount of over PLN 61 million. According to investigators, the group imported goods from the Far East through fictitious companies, which deliberately underestimated their customs value to avoid paying taxes.

The Regional Prosecutor's Office in Warsaw announced that on Tuesday the Warsaw-Śródmieście District Court accepted the application for the application of a three-month temporary detention center against Viet ha. N. – ps. Paweł Wietnamczyk. The man is suspected of managing in 2022 in Wólka Kosowska an organized criminal group aimed at committing crimes, including, among others, issuing unreliable VAT invoices and using them.

“An organized criminal group managed by a suspect issued 4063 certifying untruthful VAT invoices for a total amount of over PLN 61 million, which then transferred to established business entities, which in turn used them for tax settlements, unreliable keeping of VAT purchase records, providing untruth in submitted tax declarations and to reduce VAT by almost PLN 9 million” – – informs prosecutor Mateusz Martyniuk, spokesman for the Regional Prosecutor's Office in Warsaw.

Underestimated the customs value of the goods

The investigation in this case is being conducted by the Regional Prosecutor's Office in Warsaw in cooperation with the Central Police Investigation Bureau in Bialystok and the Mazowieckie Customs and Tax Office in Warsaw. The previous findings of the services show that in Warsaw, Janki and Wólka Kosowska in 2018-2022 an organized international criminal group operated. It was composed of Polish citizens, as well as people of Ukrainian, Vietnamese or Hindu nationality.

“Members of the group conducted activities involving the import of goods from the Far East, mainly by sea through other countries of the Schengen zone, using fictitious companies, created for the purposes of the indicated procedure. These companies underestimated the customs values ​​of purchased goods, without paying due taxes” – explains prosecutor Martyniuk.

And he adds that the goods were then sold mainly through the shopping center in Wólka Kosowska and Janki. The funds obtained in this way and the benefits that the group gained thanks to not paying taxes were transferred through subsequent companies abroad, including the Chinese People's Republic, Hong Kong and the United Arab Emirates.

Over 150 fictitious companies

“As it was established, each member of the criminal group had a 'basket' of companies that created several -level 'chains', variables in time, and for mass creating empty textures and hiding the actual circulation of money “Masking 'of the actual clients, including illegal profits resulting from causing tax depletions,” describes the spokesman for the regional prosecutor's office.

According to investigators, over 150 companies remaining in the criminal group did not conduct any real activity. Their authorities were to be created usually by people who were “columns” recruited by the gang.

“The criminal group was actually managed by its creator – suspicious Zbigniew B., and after his detention on January 11, 2022, managing the criminal group passed into the hands of Viet Ha N., ps. Paweł Wietnamczyk” – indicates prosecutor Martyniuk.

92 people with allegations

As he calculates, the Warsaw Regional Prosecutor's Office in the investigation regarding this case has already charged with 92 suspects. “The total number of VAT invoices issued by members of an organized criminal group led by Zbigniew B. and Viet Ha.

Until now, prosecutors have managed six indictments in this case.