Police arrested members of a criminal group dealing with fraud on goods and services (VAT. The deceivers issued fictional invoices on millions of zlotys. The group was headed by a Ukrainian citizen and consisted of 20 people of different nationalities. It operated in 4 provinces, creating 25 companies, including money laundering and illegal arms trafficking.
Podkarpackie taxation services and police crashed the Vatowska mafia, which issued fictitious VAT invoices for almost PLN 107 million. The criminal group was followed by officers of the Podkarpackie Customs and taxation Office in Przemyśl. They were the ones who discovered the practice of issuing alleged "empty invoices". Cooperation with the Central Police Investigative Office in Rzeszów and supervision of the Faculty of abroad Office of the National Public Prosecutor's Office allowed to work out the full organized group dealing with large-scale taxation fraud.
“The findings of the investigation revealed that the group operated, among others, in the territory of Podkarpackie, Mazowieckie, Świętokrzyski and Łódź provinces. Its activity was to issue and usage unreliable and fictitious VAT invoices.” – informs the Chamber of taxation Administration in Rzeszów.
Members of the group were liable for taxation offences, money laundering and another criminal and economical criminal offences. As determined by the investigator, the organizer and leader of the full structure was... Ukrainian, and there were at least 20 people of different nationalities, mainly Polish and Ukrainian.
The members of the group besides took steps to legalise funds from criminal activities, i.e. money laundering. Additionally, any people illegally owned firearms and committed illegal crossing the Polish border.
Various preventive measures of a free nature were applied to suspects, including bans on leaving the country and property guarantees – 1 of them amounted to PLN 500 1000 – as well as a compulsory mortgage on properties worth PLN 2 million. For future penalties, valuable assets belonging to the accused were secured, including a watch worth PLN 80 thousand, works of art worth PLN 247.3 thousand, cash of PLN 97 thousand, gold jewelry worth PLN 816.5 1000 and a passenger car worth PLN 254.4 thousand.
The indictment for 15 people went to the Industrial territory Court. The first trial has not yet been appointed.
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