The criminal group caught by NAV a few days ago caused nearly a quarter billion forints of damage by selling wheat imported from Romania, using false invoices.
The company based in Debrecen bought rape, barley and corn for more than 1 billion forints from various Hajdú-Bihar County companies according to the invoices but in reality, the crops came from Romania and Slovakia. They tried to avoid tax liabilities on EU procurement this way. To disguise the origin of the grain, the company made false waybills. The companies that issued the false invoices didn’t submit tax returns and their leaders have been convicted previously; one of them is in prison at the moment.
The financial investigators cooperated with the tax inspectors of the Northern Great Plain region to discover the full circle of perpetrators. The inspectors raided 13 locations at the same time and seized the documents evidencing the criminal activities. In order that the damages can be recovered, the authorities took hold of the perpetrators’ properties, vehicles and blocked their bank accounts. The tax fraud the perpetrators committed is punishable with up to 8 years of imprisonment.
Source: MTI
