VAT extortion The list of charges and suspects is growing longer
More detainees in connection with the fraudulent return of undue VAT. The investigators claim that the value of invoices disclosed so far exceeds PLN 45 million.
The officers of the CBA Regional Office in Katowice, jointly with the District Prosecutor's Office in Kraków, have been investigating the activities of an organised crime group introducing fictitious VAT invoices into legal circulation. The value of the fraudulent invoices, disclosed at this stage of the investigation, amounts to over PLN 45 million. The practice took place in the years 2018 - 2020.
In recent days, acting on evidence gathered in the case, six entrepreneurs from Silesia have been detained.
The detainees have heard charges of using VAT invoices attesting an untruth. The total amount of the questioned VAT invoices, accepted by the detainees, amounts to PLN 7.5 million.
This is already the eighth procedural operation in this case. So far, in the course of the investigation, charges have been presented against 38 persons. Bills of indictment have been filed against some of the suspects.
Public Relations Division of the CBA
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