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More than HUF 1.3 billion in damages were caused by a criminal organization composed of perpetrators in Budapest and Nagykanizsa, dealing with the trade in used cars imported from abroad, the press officer of the Western Transdanubia Criminal Directorate of the National Tax and Customs Administration (NAV) informed the MTI on Thursday.
According to Dávid Haszon, the vehicles were brought from Germany to Hungary via Czech and Slovenian companies, where the first national customers were dealers who only participated in the paper purchase and did not pay VAT on resale. Cars delivered with fictitious “missing dealer” invoices with minimal profit could be sold by end customers at a much better price than competitors.
To dismantle the network, NAV investigators in Western Transdanubia conducted investigations at forty locations, hundreds of investigators, patrols, IT specialists, and dogs looking for drugs and money participated in obtaining the evidence. As the leaders of the criminal organization had various dealings with the authorities, the deployment units of the Counter-Terrorism Prevention Center (TEK) and NAV MERKUR arrived in Pest and Nagykanizsa county.
The head of the criminal organization was captured by TEK commandos in a luxury house in Pest county, at first the man’s girlfriend did not even understand the seriousness of the situation, she thought that a special request for little girl. With its bulletproof glazing, camera system, and motion sensors, the billion-dollar property served almost as a bastion for its residents.
To recover the damage done to the budget, NAV blocked bank accounts and real estate and seized large amounts of cash. With the help of specially trained dogs, more than 25 million florins in cash were found in the car of the criminal gang member in Nagykanizsa.
In a secret office reserved for organizing crimes, fingerprints also had to be checked because the perpetrators denied having anything to do with the property.
Authorities detained five people, three of whom were arrested on the basis of a motion by the Zala County Attorney General’s Office for budget fraud, which caused particularly significant property damage, and two of whom were placed under criminal supervision. . Perpetrators can receive up to twenty years, according to a statement from NAV.
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