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The Bács-Kiskun County Prosecutor General’s Office has charged the Italian-Hungarian meat magnate with budget fraud, money laundering and bribery committed in a criminal organization. Piero pinivel , against his son and more than a hundred others, who, by operating four tax fraudulent criminal organizations, caused more than six billion guilders in budget damage, he learned from 24.hu.
Gábor Schmidt, a spokesperson for the Bács-Kiskun County Attorney General’s Office stated at our request in connection with the case that the prosecution had proposed a prison to be executed and a ban on public affairs for the leaders of the criminal organization, excluding them from the possibility of parole. But they were also asked to exclude them from their employment, that is, from continuing to run the company.
As it is well known that Piero Pini, his son and the executive pulled the strings, this means that the Prosecutor’s Office has requested that a prison sentence be discharged for all three. Pini has been present in the Hungarian meat industry for a quarter of a century, but he also owned a football club and ran the Budapest Honvéd in the first half of the 2000s. One and a half million pigs are slaughtered annually in the Kiskunfélegyháza plant, but it seems that the capacity is enough for 2 million.
According to the indictment, an extensive and effective investigation by the NAV’s Southern Great Plain Criminal Directorate revealed that at least four criminal organizations were operating side by side, supporting each other. The central part of the case is the tax fraud committed with a meat company in the south of the Great Plain. The directors of the company are also owners of several foreign companies, therefore, due to international relations, NAV and the General Prosecutor’s Office, together with international bodies such as Europol and Eurojust, cooperated with foreign authorities.
The company that operated the slaughterhouse for half the church used its own labor to a lesser extent, and used mainly subcontractors. The subcontractors invoiced their services plus VAT. In reality, however, there were temporary staff between the parties, so in the case of contract work, the subcontract was bogus. The goal was to avoid paying taxes and contributions to employees and to “produce” VAT invoices for the meat company. The beneficiary of the simulated transactions and tax evasion was the meat company, with the help of labor companies.
The Pines used employers who evaded tax payments with fictitious invoices or declared employees for less than their actual salary, thereby reducing their contribution costs. In addition, part of the employees’ salaries were delivered in a “tax-free” voucher, which was almost immediately exchanged for cash, defrauding additional tax credits from the budget.
Since April 2018, NAV investigators carried out eleven actions in the case, including house searches and seizures at 217 sites. In addition to the high-quality investigation, the investigating authority also carried out pending property searches: as a result of their efforts, billions of forint damages were fully insured through seizures. The locks were not only successful domestically, but also affected the assets of foreign companies thanks to effective domestic cooperation.
The directors of the meat industry company caused a total financial loss of 6.1 billion HUF in the budget in eight years. According to our information, the son of the Italian-Hungarian meat magnate and the administrator also denied their guilt during the criminal proceedings. However, prior to indictment, the money was voluntarily reimbursed to NAV, thus offsetting the full damage.
According to a statement from the Attorney General’s Office on the case, the leaders of the criminal organization tried to “launder” the proceeds of crime by transferring them between bank accounts, hiding their origin. With the proceeds of the tax fraud, the leaders of the criminal organization transferred more than 1 billion guilders in dividends to a Cypriot company in which they had a stake, and the amount eventually landed in the account of a Spanish company, which could also be linked. to them.
In the case, NAV investigators also discovered an invoice factory that issued fictitious invoices, mainly for advertising, based on customer needs. Approximately 40 companies that received fictitious invoices caused a total of HUF 1.5 billion in budget damage. Several of the companies receiving the invoices voluntarily compensated for the damage caused.
The Bács-Kiskun County Attorney General’s Office has prosecuted a total of 110 people. The Office of the Attorney General of the Nation accuses them, among other things, of budget fraud, money laundering and economic bribery committed in a criminal organization. Piero Pini is currently under criminal supervision, but his son is awaiting trial. A total of 47 companies, including a foreign one, have been prosecuted, which has resulted in the imposition or termination of a fine.
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