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The pre-trial investigation is carried out on the possible acquisition of high-value foreign property, fraudulent accounting, misappropriation of high-value foreign property, incorrect presentation of data on the company’s income, earnings and assets, reports the FNTT .
The investigation revealed that a group of complicit Ukrainian citizens brought more than 300 employees from Ukraine and Belarus to Lithuania in two years.
The organizers who ran five companies in Lithuania and Poland acted according to a made-up scheme: by falsifying documents, they allegedly employed people who came to work in their own companies in Poland and then subcontracted employees to Lithuania.
The investigation revealed that the organizers had entered into agreements with 13 companies in the construction sector in Lithuania, where the employees brought in carried out electrical installation work.
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The data collected suggests that the employees were not officially employed in either Poland or Lithuania, and that partners operating under this scheme may not have paid any taxes in Lithuania or Poland.
After receiving income from work performed by employees, Ukraine’s accomplices sought to avoid state taxes. Officials suspect that the accomplices, with the help of another Lithuanian-registered company they own, may have falsified documents when formalizing fictitious transactions between construction sites. At the same time, the accounting was possibly handled fraudulently, other documents were falsified to avoid paying taxes to the state, more than 278 thousand. VAT EUR and more than 240 thousand. income tax in euros.
FNTT officials conducted 16 searches of the suspects’ homes, workplaces and cars in Vilnius. During the search, accounting documents, computers, mobile phones, unaccounted for cash and manuscripts relevant to the investigation were seized.
During the investigation, the property of the suspects was temporarily restricted by more than 300,000. euros.
This is not the first case revealed by the FNTT and an investigation has been initiated in which, under a similar criminal scheme, third-country nationals are fictitiously sent from Poland to Lithuania without paying taxes. Faced with these negative trends, the FNTT closely monitors and analyzes the employment cases of foreigners, and when it detects signs of violations or crimes, it decides on the initiation of the pre-trial investigation and the prosecution of the culprits.
The misappropriation of high value foreign property is severely punishable by up to ten years in prison. High-value foreign assets acquired through fraud carry a maximum prison sentence of up to eight years. The most severe penalty for fraudulent accounting is imprisonment for up to four years. Tax evasion by providing incorrect income data when the amount of taxes exceeds 750 MSL is punishable by the most severe prison sentence of up to eight years.
The pre-trial investigation is organized and led by the Prosecutor of the 3rd Prosecution Division of the Vilnius Regional Prosecutor’s Office.
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