Bribes for 600 thousand zł. The Tax Office in Bydgoszcz under the investigation of the CBA
The officers of the Katowice Regional Office of the Central Anticorruption Bureau detained 4 people in Bydgoszcz, its vicinity and in the Żywiec poviat. They are businessmen suspected of being involved in an organized criminal group. Three of them accepted bribes for a total of 600,000 zł in exchange for invoking influences at tax offices. The person who was handing bribes, in installments of 50,000 zł, counted on the positive settling of tax controls in his companies.
The CBA officers searched the detainees' apartments and the offices of the Tax Office in Bydgoszcz. Documents of tax audits for companies belonging to the businessman handing bribes were secured there. The investigation is to determine, whether the men from the criminal group had a real influence on employees of the Tax Office in Bydgoszcz and whether they could have influenced the course of tax inspections in this way.
Those detained by the CBA were transferred to the District Prosecutor's Office in Katowice, where they were charged.
The case is ongoing. Further detentions are not ruled out and the list of charges may be extended.
Temistokles Brodowski, CBA