A Ukrainian “laundered” almost a million euros in Poland and could go to jail for 10 years
The Lublin prosecutor's office in Poland charged Ukrainian citizen Igor L. with money laundering in the amount of almost 850 thousand euros and participation in an international criminal group that illegally received refunds of value added tax (VAT), a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
This was reported by Polish Radio with reference to the Polish National Prosecutor's Office.
“Igor L. is the first member of an exposed criminal group to be accused on the basis of materials excluded from the investigation. Proceedings against its other members continue. According to preliminary data, the value of the refunded VAT that this group took possession of is several million zlotys,” said Maciej Fljorkiewicz, a representative of the Department of Organized Crime and Corruption of the National Prosecutor’s Office in Lublin.
As Polish prosecutors found out, the Ukrainian received almost 850 thousand euros from other companies, and then transferred these funds to the accounts of other business entities. These transfers were supposed to simulate financial transactions, which turned out to be fictitious.
In particular, it was established that the company on whose behalf Igor L. acted, together with other companies, was created to cover up trade operations in order to obtain a VAT refund fraudulently. It was registered in Cyprus and had a branch in Edinburgh.
According to prosecutors, the criminal group operated from January 2014 to April 2017 in Warsaw and other locations in Poland, as well as outside the country. Its members opened bank accounts in Poland for various companies, to which large sums of money were transferred from various foreign companies.
According to preliminary data, no one actually worked for the company, and the companies were not engaged in economic activities.
At the moment, the Ukrainian is under temporary arrest. For illegal actions he faces up to 10 years in prison.
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