A criminal organisation defrauding the budget with BGN 50 mln is arrested

A group of ten people which defrauded the state budget with BGN 50 mln through tax evasion has been arrested, the press office of the Interior Ministry announced. CDCOC and SANS employees carried out an operation in order to detect and document a criminal organisation dealing with tax evasion in large amounts. The gang used companies of the type "missing traders", as part of the generated through criminal activity resource was transferred to offshore companies. It was discovered that the Bulgarian "missing traders" companies had no capacity to perform their business activities and that the group's organisers imported goods, the invoice values of which they lowered by reducing the taxable base with the unlawful purpose of evading payment of the full amount of VAT. In the process of the work, it became clear that the organisers of the gang, through some of their companies, carried on a trade with actual counterparts, however, without issuing the necessary tax documents.

The course of the investigation disclosed participants in the scheme who received about BGN 200,000 to 250,000 in cash weekly. They subsequently deposited the money into the accounts of these Bulgarian "missing traders" companies and ordered the amounts to foreign contractors.

According to experts' estimates, for the period from 2007 to date, the gang has defrauded the state budget by BGN 50 mln. A total of 10 people were detained for 24 hours. Some of them have criminal records for document fraud. A preliminary legal procedure for an offence has been initiated on the case under Art. 321 of the Penal Code.

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