site.btaCriminal Group Arrested for Evading VAT through a Fictitious Trade in Truffles

During a joint action of the Pazardzhik District Prosecutor's Office and the Pazardzhik national police directorate, an organized criminal group was discovered that swindled millions from the State through a fictitious trade in truffles and illegal reimbursement of value added tax (VAT), said at a joint briefing in Plovdiv Albena Kuzmanova, Pazarzhik district prosecutor, Rumen Popov, Plovdiv deputy appellate prosecutor, and Zhivko Penev, Pazardzhik deputy district prosecutor. In six months, the hollow corporations made a turnover, for which the VAT due was BGN 12 million. The group committed tax and insurance fraud.