Arrest of 13 businessmen, taxes react: Over 1.2 billion new fictitious invoices were issued

2022-09-29 12:53:10Aktualitet SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
Arrest of 13 businessmen, taxes react: Over 1.2 billion new fictitious invoices
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The General Directorate of Taxes has reacted after the arrest of 13 businessmen and the investigation of 4 others for the fraud scheme related to the value added tax.

In a press release, the General Directorate of Taxes informs that more than 1.2 billion new fictitious invoices issued by commercial companies, which have not exercised economic activity at any time, have been invoiced, causing a financial loss to the state in VAT and Profit Tax of 300 million new ALL.

Full Notice:

The action of the in-depth investigation by the Tax Administration is successfully completed, with the arrest of the subjects involved in the VAT fraud scheme.

After an investigation of several months, the Tax Administration, through the Directorate of Investigation, through specialized methods and cross-checking of information between sales books and purchase books, as well as through electronic fiscal systems, has managed to establish the involvement of 17 citizens closely related to entities of involved in the criminal scheme.

Over 1.2 billion new fictitious invoices issued by commercial companies, which have never exercised economic activity, causing the state a financial loss in VAT and Income Tax of 300 million new leks.

In cooperation with the Prosecutor's Office at the Tirana Court of First Instance as well as the Tirana Local Police Directorate have managed to prove that these entities in cooperation with each other have consumed elements of the criminal offense "Fraud Scheme in relation to Value Added Tax, in Cooperation, provided by articles 144/a and 25 of the Criminal Code.

From this criminal activity, the Court of the Judicial District of Tirana has assigned the security measure "arrest in prison" to 13 citizens as well as the security measure "obligation to appear" to 4 citizens, closely related to the fictitious subjects.

Subjektet e përfshira në skemën e mashtrimit me TVSH-në janë:
“No-El Construction” me nipt L72302057R; “G.S Construction” me nipt M01704017D; “Fam Construksion” me nipt L81408017V; “Tirana Universal Construksione me nipt L81721022Q; “Glob Construksion”, me nipt M21416014J
“Fredi 2021”, me nipt M11505007T; “Xhersi 2021”, me nipt M11705012P; “Aluku Grup”, me nipt M01922011F;
“Joam”, me nipt M12315033I, si dhe të lidhur ngushtë me subjektet përfituese “Mihola”, me nipt L81616001M; “E.L.2020 construksion”, me nipt M01420028U; “Amarildo Hasrama”, me nipt L61410014F; “Priam 20”, me nipt M02006001I.

Also, it is suspected that other persons and entities are involved in this criminal fraud scheme, as well as officials of the Public Administration, for whom investigations and procedural actions continue to document the criminal activity.


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