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According to the FNTT, in 2012-2017, a group of eight entrepreneurs in various fields created four companies to cover up fraud, counterfeit invoices, false executed transactions, and thus avoided the obligation to pay value added and income taxes. .
“Most of the fictitious invoices were various advertising and press services that were not complied with and the documents were falsified,” FNTT representative Modesta Zdanauskaitė told BNS.
It is suspected that in total the group thus avoided more than 265 thousand. VAT, part of which was shared. The group was also able to avoid more than 134,000. euro income tax.
Six of the group members pleaded guilty and compensated on their own for all the damage caused to the state.
Two previously convicted group members who can be considered organizers of the fraud plan will be tried for the alleged crimes.
Fraudulent and organized evasion of high-value property obligations is punishable by up to eight years in prison, up to two years in prison for directing a legal entity used to cover up illegal activities, and up to six years in prison for falsifying a large amount of documents.
The pre-trial investigation was organized and led by the Prosecutor of the 3rd Prosecution Division of the Vilnius Regional Prosecutor’s Office.
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