The Prosecutor’s Office for Organized Crime and Special Cases sent to court five criminal cases started against persons over tax evasion, false entrepreneurial activity, money laundering and smuggling. According to prosecutors, the suspects in 2015 started to identify persons from socially deprived groups in whose name they registered a number of firms for legalizing contraband goods, IPN reports.
Prosecutors and prosecuting officers told a news conference that the de facto administrators didn’t manage the firms. In reality, all the operations/economic transactions of these companies were performed by the accused. Afterward, by including evidently distorted data about incomes and costs in accounting, fiscal and financial documents, the persons avoided paying taxes to the value of almost 300 million lei.
The suspects are also accused of legalizing money earned illegally from selling goods and providing services that weren’t indicated in the financial accounts of a number of business entities to the value of about 400 million lei.
Units of transport and intangible assets to the value of about 20 million lei and the money from a bank account were sequestrated in order to ensure the damage is recovered.
A part of the suspects admitted their guilt. There were separated two criminal cases against three persons who avoid the prosecution bodies and against other beneficiary companies.
