“Invoice factory” - further detentions in the investigation
Five more persons are facing charges in connection with issuing fictitious VAT invoices. This time, for the amount of over PLN 6.4 million. So far, 67 suspects have been charged with issuing fictitious invoices worth a total of over 68 million PLN.
The officers of the CBA Regional Office in Warsaw detained five entrepreneurs in connection with the case of the so-called “invoice factory” operating in the Mazowieckie Voivodship. This case has been pending since February 2020.
The activities were conducted in the Pomorskie, Mazowieckie and Małopolskie Voivodeships as part of an investigation carried out under the supervision of the District Public Prosecutor's Office in Warsaw. The investigators' findings indicate that the suspects participated in a practice of issuing nearly 500 fictitious invoices for services in the following areas: consultancy, transport coordination, consulting, financial analysis and a number of other services amounting to over PLN 6.4 million.
So far, in the case in question, the prosecutor has brought criminal charges related to the practice of issuing fictitious invoices for a total amount of over PLN 68 million against 67 persons, and the District Prosecutor's Office in Warsaw, acting on the evidence gathered in the case, submitted 14 bills of indictment to the courts.
As a result of the activities undertaken by the officers of the CBA Regional Office in Warsaw, a group involved in the "production" of invoices on a large scale throughout Poland was broken up. Significantly, in consequence of the activities undertaken by the CBA and the Public Prosecutor's Office, some entrepreneurs voluntarily reported to tax offices to settle the loss caused by the use of unreliable VAT invoices in their business activities.
Public Relations Division of the CBA
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