- Over 2.2 million meters of smuggled fabric from China were seized in Italy as part of a customs fraud investigation led by the EPPO.
- The scheme involved fake suppliers, buyers, and delivery addresses, as well as fake legal entities across Europe to avoid customs duties and VAT.
- Suspects regularly changed company names at the same storage locations to evade financial authorities and stay below alert thresholds.
- Investigations extended to Germany and Poland, revealing no import forms or proof of customs/VAT payments by the target companies.
- All suspects are presumed innocent until proven guilty; the EPPO leads the investigation into crimes against the EU’s financial interests.
Source: eppo.europa.eu
Note that this post was (partially) written with the help of AI. It is always useful to review the original source material, and where needed to obtain (local) advice from a specialist.
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