The Judicial Police (PJ) has carried out more than 20 searches in the Nordic region as part of an investigation into a tax fraud and money laundering scheme that has caused millions of euros in damages to the state, it was announced on Monday.
The investigating team said in a statement that more than 20 home and non-home searches were carried out in Viana do Castelo, Porto and Vila Nova de Gaia, in accordance with warrants issued as part of the investigation into the case of a group of companies that combines a large number of commercial companies. .
The JV believes that these companies are controlled by a certified public accountant who acts as a “front man” in a “complex scheme of tax fraud and money laundering which, namely by acquiring companies in economic difficulty or in bankruptcy, resorting to the issuance of false billing “, will cause damage to the state in the amount of millions of euros.
The accountant, according to PJ, is “an entrepreneur and managing partner of many companies.”
As a result of searches carried out by Braga’s Department of Criminal Investigations in cooperation with the Revenue and Financial Directorate of Viana do Castelo, a “significant collection of documents (accounting, financial and banking), computer equipment and cash” were seized.
Investigations are still carried out by the Judicial Police and the Tax Office within a mixed group formed by both of them.