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Prosecutors filed a lawsuit against four people arrested Tuesday on suspicion of large-scale VAT fraud and fraudulent accounting.
Kaunas Chief District Prosecutor Darius Valkavičius reported on Wednesday.
“The prosecutor has gone to court for the arrest of four people (…) Officials have gathered enough data today to talk about a particular tax evasion plan,” the prosecutor said at a press conference.
According to BNS, the only suspect not requesting arrest by the prosecution is Rimandas Stonys, a businessman working in the energy field.
Photo by Rimantas Stonys / Tomas Ragina
According to D. Valkavičius, all the detainees were charged with the same suspicion.
“We have enough data that the state was evaded from paying taxes and the damage was more than a million,” said the chief prosecutor for the Kaunas district.
According to him, during the investigation of the trial, 2 million were also arrested. euros of various assets. It is mostly a diverse property, but also a bank account with more than 400 thousand. euros.
“The main task today is to secure compensation for damages to the state and then recover said amount in favor of the state,” emphasized D. Valkavičius.
Photo by Darius Valkavičius / Vilmantas Raupelis
Rolandas Urbonas, head of the Kaunas Regional Board of the FNTT, affirmed that the detainees had created a mechanism of criminal activity, when value added and consumption taxes were avoided in the separate oil and diesel trade.
“The diesel trade is subject to VAT and excise duties, and to avoid it, they have established an oil trading scheme between fake companies run by members of their organized group. That oil was sold abroad, then the same oil was sold. repurchased through shell companies, the VAT payable was transferred to the shell companies, and the parent company that sells abroad receives an overpayment of VAT and uses that tax to cover the tax on diesel sales, Mr Urbon speaking.
“In a very short period of time, in the autumn and winter months, more than a million euros in taxes have been generated,” he said.
According to R. Urbon, the company, which became the main beneficiary of VAT fraud, supplied diesel to gas stations and bought it in large quantities.
According to him, the number of suspicious companies may still increase, but it is possible that they are only foreign companies.
According to the district head of FNTT Kaunas, the suspects loved luxury: the main organizer of the activity was driving a Mercedes-Benz car made last year and his wife was a three-year-old Range Rover.
Officials have collected enough data today to talk about a particular tax avoidance scheme.
Prosecutor D. Valkavičius also added that the five suspects in the organized group were divided into roles and at the same time sought to evade taxes.
It did not specify whether the Kaunas cogeneration plant, whose shares are owned by R. Stonys, is also included in the investigation.
Five people have been suspected of large-scale fraud, the Financial Crimes Investigation Service reported Wednesday morning. Reports that R. Stonys, an arrested businessman and known as a suspect, appeared in the media Tuesday night.
According to BNS, the police consider that the main organizer of criminal activity is Mindaugas Žalimas in the past thirteen times.
Mindaugas Žalimas / Photo by Vytautas Petrikas
According to the FNTT, the alleged organizer of the fraud scheme has been known since 1994 for similar crimes against law enforcement agencies. He has been convicted several times in the past for large-scale VAT fraud in the fuel, metal, wood and building materials trade, and has spent several years in prisons as a result.
“The court, when pleading guilty, already declared in 2011 that the commission of similar crimes has become an integral part of the suspect’s way of life and source of livelihood. Currently, the FNTT is conducting three more preliminary investigations for crimes serious crimes against the public finance system involving this person, and several more cases are pending in the courts, ”the service previously said.
R. Stonys is the owner of Kaunas Cogeneration Power Plant (KHPP), previously controlled the Dujotekana company, she was one of the largest gas importers of the Russian company Gazprom in Lithuania.
According to data from TOP magazine, the value of R. Stonis’ property in 2019 amounted to 70 million. euros.
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