Criminal lawsuits against a group of seven people who organized fictitious commercial channels – Criminal Messages

In November of this year, the Tax and Customs Police Department of the Tax Service (SRS) sent extensive criminal proceedings to prevent tax evasion of an amount exceeding five million euros. euros to the specialized prosecutor's office of the organized crime and the other services of the specialized parquet and paid more than 900 000 euros for the fraud, informed the service of the taxes. .

As a result of these actions, the state budget suffered losses of more than six million euros.

A series of operational investigations and investigations revealed that the organized group of seven people accused of prosecution had organized fictitious chains in an effort to reduce the amount of value-added tax (VAT) to be paid to the state budget and illegally obtained the right to deduct VAT upstream for transactions not actually made. , thus resulting in losses for the state budget.

For the implementation of criminal activities, companies registered in Latvia operating in the field of metal products were used.

Criminal proceedings were initiated before the BSS Financial Police in May 2014.

In accordance with article 19 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, no one may be considered guilty until he has been convicted of a criminal offense in accordance with the procedures specified in the Code of Criminal Procedure.