The prosecutor’s office liquidates the organization suspected of fraud with millionaires before the state

The State Department and the Internal Revenue Service this Wednesday dismantled a criminal organization involved in high-value tax fraud, social security and individuals and executed four arrest warrants, according to the Attorney General’s Office.

A note published on the PGR website states that as part of an investigation conducted by the Prosecutor’s Office (MP) of the Main Directorate of the Investigation and Executive System (VDSIN), three dozen searches were carried out in residential buildings during the day this Wednesday. lawyers, business premises and vehicles.

Four arrest warrants were also issued, and 25 vehicles and one property were confiscated.

The investigations are the result of 16 investigations, the DCIAP said in a statement explaining that “for several years, the prime suspect, a businessman in the national and international transportation industry, with the assistance of proxies and family members, was active in the company he ran, in the accounting of the operation were carried out, which was confirmed by forged documents.

“In his operations, he never paid taxes or social security contributions, which led to some companies being declared insolvent, which caused serious damage to the state and creditors,” he adds.

According to the DKIAP, after a certain point, the main suspect began to use people he trusted to take the position of company managers as “front men”, and it was he who, in fact, led them.

“The suspect falsified many transactions between these companies, as well as between these companies and national and Spanish companies, and through bank accounts opened in the name of “iron foreheads”, transferred large sums of money in the amount of several million euros in a few months. covered with fictitious billing,” added in a note.

The DCIAP points out that, among other things, actions organized for the purpose of obtaining illegal benefits, through non-payment of taxes due to concealment and change in value or other aspects inherent in the business, with an impact on the determination of tax installments, are at stake.

Banking operations are still under investigation, which may be used to embezzle illegally obtained amounts.

The facts, he adds, are likely to be numerous crimes of qualified fraud, document forgery, money laundering, malicious insolvency, criminal association, qualified tax fraud, tax breach of trust, breach of trust in social security, tax fraud, social security fraud. , illegal immigration assistance, skilled computer fraud and illegal access.

The events took place in Porto, Povoa de Varzim and Vila Nova de Gaia and were attended by three magistrates from the DCIAP deputy, a judge from the Central Criminal Court, and elements and investigation teams from the Public Security Police, Social Security and tax and customs service. This process is under judicial secrecy.