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Allegations of complicity in the squandering of club funds, aiding in document falsification and fraudulent accounting are also brought to the director of an Estonian registered company, a Polish AK citizen, and the director of a US registered company Blankets Ignatavičius. The latter is also accused of money laundering.
According to a pre-trial investigation by officials from the Klaipėda Regional Board of the Financial Crimes Investigation Service, O. Kurauskas, former director of a basketball club in 2012-2016, suspected of entering into fictitious agreements with American and Estonian companies image and possibly funds transferred to US and Estonian registered company accounts during this period.
It is suspected that companies registered abroad, allegedly by the use of images of athletes and coaches, transferred part of the funds received to the coaches and athletes of the Port City Basketball Club, and the other part of the money was wasted.
According to the study, the basketball club squandered more than 490,000, possibly transferring more money to offshore companies than the compensation paid to the club’s employees and athletes. euros. Data from a study that revealed such a tax evasion mechanism showed that 33 coaches and athletes from the Port City Basketball Club received a portion of their salary for activities abroad through offshore companies. Data collected by FNTT officials during the pre-trial investigation suggests that information on salary paid was not included in the basketball club’s accounts, and therefore tax evasion.
The investigation also revealed that the owner of the US-registered company Mantas Ignatavičius, having received more than 308,000 euros from a basketball club, was laundered by legalizing this money by transferring it to the accounts of other foreign companies and individuals.
It is estimated that more than 166,000 were committed due to illegal actions and non-payment of taxes. damage to the State Tax Inspection, more than 67 thousand. EUR damages to Sodra and 471 Cerdocyon damages to the Klaipėda basketball club exceeding EUR.
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