Three persons detained into fictitious VAT invoices
The officers from Katowice Regional Office of the Central Anticorruption Bureau, at the request of the Silesian Terrain Division of the Department of Organized Crime and Corruption of the National Prosecutor's Office in Katowice, detained another three persons in the case into issuing and marketing unreliable VAT invoices documenting fictitious economic activities. As a result of the criminal activity of this group of people, the State Treasury lost over 320 thousand zł due to unpaid due VAT tax.
The detainees are entrepreneurs from Silesian Voivodship who run companies in Warsaw and Krakow. They will now be brought to the Silesian Division of the National Public Prosecutor's Office in Katowice, where they will be charged.
This is another part of a multifaceted investigation into irregularities in construction investments carried out, among others in Silesia, financed from public and European funds, in which irregularities in the construction of a new headquarters of the State Fire Service in Mysłowice for 17.5 million zł are being explained. In this thread of the investigation charges were pressed against the former City Commander of this Fire Service and a member of a tender commission - an expert not belonging to this service.
The investigation also includes irregularities in the reindustrialization of the outbuilding in the center of Katowice - the demolition of the tenement house and the construction of a new one for commercial purposes, using public funds from the Jessica Program. Five persons were detained in this thread of investigation in 2017.
The investigation is still developmental.