- Six defendants, including company directors, lawyers, a tax accountant, and an office manager, have been indicted in Berlin for large-scale VAT fraud involving diesel sales.
- The scheme involved chemically modified “designer fuels” imported via complex transactions through Lithuania, Latvia, Hungary, and Poland, falsely declared to evade taxes.
- Over 3,000 fraudulent fuel deliveries and false invoices enabled VAT evasion totaling €23.7 million, with an additional €8 million in damages linked to false invoicing.
- Company assets worth over €9.5 million were transferred to a new entity to avoid financial obligations, with all parties allegedly aware of unpaid energy taxes.
- The investigation was led by the EPPO and supported by multiple German tax and customs offices.
Source: eppo.europa.eu
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