Fictitious VAT invoices for 160 million zł. Businessmen from Wólka Kosowska detained
Agents from the CBA Regional Office in Łódź detained three more people of Turkish origin operating in the textile industry in Wólka Kosowska.
Investigative findings indicate that companies run by detained businessmen were issuing fictitious VAT invoices for at least 160 million zł. In the detentions took part soldiers from the Military Gendarmerie.
These amounts may increase, activities are ongoing. CBA officers are searching the detainees' apartments, and they are securing accounting records in their offices.
To this day, in this investigation, allegations regarding, among others, participation in years 2014-2017 in and organized criminal group were brought against 38 suspects: intermediaries, helpers and company representatives. The group committed crimes consisting in a fictitious turnover of, among others, textile goods and issuing unreliable VAT invoices. In this case, among others, in February 2018, the CBA agents detained the president and vice president of a large temporary work agency. The findings of the CBA indicate that the detainees brought about the extortion of the tax refund of great value - over 30 million zł, and within the organized criminal group, through a system of companies and transfers, they "laundered" over 161 million zł crime proceeds.
The officers of the Central Anticorruption Bureau conducting the proceedings still do not rule out further detentions and extension of the list of charges.