200 trucks filled with diesel were declared as lubricating oil. In this way was avoided 50 million in taxes. Are now being prosecuted eleven people in a large ekobrottshärva.
200 tanker trucks with diesel has been brought into Sweden with false papers.
After more than a year of surveillance and phone tapping, beating financial crime. In several places in Sweden, arrested the 26 april the majority of the eleven persons who are now being prosecuted in a large ekobrottshärva with its registered office in Skåne.
– It is about the entry of around 6 million litres of oil to the us, which has proven to be the diesel, ” says Maja Källén, prosecutors at the serious fraud office in Malmö, sweden.
It was when the Tax began to take the suspicion of cheating with vat, as the serious fraud office became aware of the operation.
During the period it is approximately 200 road tankers with diesel, which has been brought into Sweden with false papers, ” says Maja Källén.
According to the prosecutor, so have the documents given the impression of tankbilarna contains the lubricating oil, often from Poland.
the Cars have been run to a company in the north of Skåne, where the oil has been sold as diesel fuel to trucking companies.
” You have done so here in order to evade the excise duty on diesel. It would have amounted to sek 33 million. It is what is the brottsupplägget, ” says Maja Källén.
As a result, the state has also lost money that could be paid in the vat and the total amount of the state losses to 50 million.
Of the eleven accused are seen four of the central figures. A 32-year-old man and 68-year-old man, resident in Malmö. A 27-year-old man resident in Sundsvall and a 42-year-old in the north of Skåne. 42-year-old is also a representative of the company that sold the oil on.
The other defendants are suspected to have been less involved, some have helped to wash the money, others acting as decoys in the scam companies where they served as members of the board.
The four principals are being prosecuted for serious tax evasion. According to the prosecutor, they have only during this year, earned several million was in the arrangement.
– It is a felony. In a ruling from the Stockholm in a similar case, where there was less oil, and sentenced the principals to six years in prison, ” says Maja Källén.
Several of the defendants are friends from before and some have previously been convicted for an economic crime.
The defendants deny the crimes.
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