[ad_1]
According to the FNTT, the crime was revealed in cooperation with the State Tax Inspectorate (STI).
During the 30 searches, 5 suspects were arrested, including a possible organizer, convicted 13 times of similar financial crimes.
According to the data of the preliminary investigation, in the last 7 months, a group of accomplices is suspected of reducing the VAT on sales and the excise tax that an energy company registered in Lithuania, which markets petroleum products, must pay by more than 1 , 1 million. . EUR, possibly carried out a criminal plan, imitating oil purchase and sale transactions between 5 Lithuanian and foreign companies, which, according to the investigation data, do not carry out any activity.
The amount of unpaid fees may change during the investigation.
In Kaunas, Klaipėda and Vilnius, 85 officers from FNTT units, the police and the Public Security Service carried out more than 30 searches.
The organizer was convicted 13 times
According to the FNTT, five suspects, including the alleged organizer of a criminal plan, have been arrested and have been known to law enforcement agencies since 1994 for similar financial crimes.
After spending more than a year in prisons, the organizer has been convicted of large-scale value-added tax (VAT) fraud in the trade in fuel, metal, wood, building materials and, in recent years, se they have committed crimes in commerce. of petroleum products.
The court, when pleading guilty, already declared in 2011 that the commission of similar crimes had already become an integral part of the suspect’s way of life and source of livelihood.
According to BNS, this is Mindaugas Žalimas.
Currently, the FNTT is conducting three more preliminary investigations for serious crimes against public finances involving this person, with several more cases pending before the courts.
Among the 5 detainees – R.Stonys
On March 2, it was reported that in this investigation Rimandas Stonys, a businessman who works in the energy field, was also arrested. To the knowledge of BNS, he is a suspect in the investigation.
The energy businessman says he has been detained “completely unnecessarily”, did not comment on whether he was charged on Tuesday after the elections.
R.Stonys is the owner of Kaunas Cogeneration Power Plant (KHPP), previously controlled the Dujotekana company, which 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 reached 70 million. euros.
During the raids, several items and documents relevant to the investigation were seized. The investigation limited the assets of companies and individuals to secure a possible civil lawsuit.
Large-scale fraud in an organized group carries the most severe sentences of up to eight years.
On Wednesday at 3 pm, the FNTT is organizing a press conference in Kaunas, during which it will briefly comment on this ongoing investigation.
[ad_2]
