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The pre-trial investigation is carried out by the Kaunas Regional Board of the Financial Crimes Investigation Service (FNTT).
The company operating in the Vilkaviškis and Marijampolė municipalities is suspected of having acquired part of ferrous and non-ferrous metals and used batteries without accounting documents. Officials also suspect that the company managers, in order to reduce the amount of taxes to be paid to the state and knowing that the purchase of scrap metal from residents of third countries is subject to 0 personal income tax for falsifying documents of purchase and sale, recorded in their accounting records that the metals were allegedly purchased from non-EU citizens. It is estimated that such alleged transactions could have been executed for almost 2 million. The amount of unpaid taxes amounts to more than 100,000. euros.
FNTT officials carried out 13 raids at the company’s facilities and other places related to the investigation, and seized documents relevant to the investigation. Specialists from the State Labor Inspectorate participated in the search together with the officials, who registered three cases of possible illegal work.
Property rights to cash and real estate, the total value of which amounts to almost 200 thousand. euros.
For tax evasion by providing incorrect income data when the tax amount exceeds 750 basic social benefits, the most severe penalty is imprisonment for up to eight years. The most severe penalty for fraudulent accounting is imprisonment for up to four years.
