FNTT officials were caught by 6 fraudulent directors who had not paid half a million in taxes

According to the pre-trial investigation, six companies came before FNTT officials. Four of them bought and sold large quantities of various types of cereals in Lithuania and Latvia. Two of these companies established in Lithuania were owned by Latvian citizens and the remaining two were owned by Lithuanians.

When officials became interested in buying and selling cereals, sometimes worth more than half a million euros, it was discovered that most of them were fictitious and never executed. The managers of 4 companies, who know each other, are suspected of fraudulently falsifying invoices and sharing considerable sums of money received after fictitious transactions, charging at ATMs in Panevėžys and Biržai. Officials suspect that the director of another company dedicated to passenger transport in the Pasvalys district, who participated in the falsification of invoices for fictitious transactions and also fell into the hands of officials, was an accessory to this money and misappropriated the money.

According to available data, the Pasvalys district company possibly fraudulently managed the accounting, acquired services that were not provided to the company. The director of the company is also believed to have purchased trips for himself and his family and repaired personal vehicles with company money. To hide the alleged violations, the manager imitated the sale of the company’s shares to an unrelated Latvian citizen, but during the inspections some of the company’s documents were found on the actual director.

During the investigation of fictitious transactions, the company dedicated to the transport of cargo in the Pasvalys district, which contributed to the falsification of documents and invoices, allegedly transported more than 303 tons of grain from Latvia to Lithuania, also attracted the attention of investigators . In addition to the invoices, 12 international delivery notes were falsified.

Currently, six companies are under suspicion. It is estimated that they fraudulently hid and did not pay almost 0.5 million. Taxes on value added and income to the state. The damage caused to legal persons amounts to more than 263 thousand. euros.

In the preliminary investigation, lawsuits were filed against 4 people, the amount of which exceeded 400 thousand. euros. The ownership of real estate with a value greater than 163 thousand has been temporarily restricted. euros. After the prosecutor from the Panevėžys Regional Prosecutor’s Office leading the investigation drew up the indictment, the case was transferred to the Panevėžys Regional Court.

Tax evasion by providing incorrect income data when the tax amount exceeds 750 MSL is punishable by the most severe prison sentence of up to eight years. The most severe punishment for fraudulently acquired high-value foreign property is imprisonment for up to eight years. The most severe penalty for fraudulent accounting is imprisonment for up to four years. Misappropriation of high-value foreign assets is severely punishable by up to ten years in prison, and falsification of documents threatens up to three years in prison.