Fictitious invoices for training, consulting, financial analyses — further detainees
The CBA has detained individuals involved in the case of issuing 390 fictitious invoices worth over PLN 4 million. Previously, 10 people have been charged in this case.
The officers of the CBA Regional Office in Warsaw have detained five entrepreneurs from Gdańsk and its vicinity. This is another operation carried out in connection with the investigation, which has been conducted jointly with the District Prosecutor's Office in Warsaw. The case concerns the issuance and distribution of fictitious invoices giving rise to the depletion of tax receivables. This time, the detainees are suspected of participating in a practice of issuing 390 fictitious invoices for services in the following areas: computer services, training, consultancy, transport coordination, consulting, financial analyses and a number of others — for a total amount of over PLN 4 million. After the searches in their places of work and residence, all of them were transported to the prosecutor's office where they were charged with issuing unreliable invoices and attestation of an untruth as to the factual circumstances that could be of significance for the determination of the amount of public and legal receivables or their return. The above mentioned criminal offences are punishable by up to 8 years’ imprisonment. The prosecutor applied non-custodial preventive measures against the detainees.
The investigation has been instigated on the grounds of the evidence gathered by the CBA officers. A total of 15 individuals have been charged. In February and July of last year, under special operations, five persons were detained in the act of committing a criminal offence related to invoking influence in the customs and tax office and positive completion of customs and tax inspection in return for a financial gain in the amount of PLN 40,000, and in connection with the purchase of blank invoices. Further detentions took place in February 2021. So far, the prosecutor has pressed charges related to the practice of issuing fictitious invoices that amounted to over PLN 47 million.
The case is under development.
Public Relations Division of the CBA
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