The 9 million USD fraud scheme revealed
New details were discovered by the police one day after the joint action with the Tax Investigation Directorate, which ended with the arrest of six people and six others declared wanted.
Sources from Tirana police say that the organizer of the fraudulent scheme with fictitious VAT bills is suspected of being Sokol Lami. The latter is on the list of five businessmen declared wanted by the police, accused of the criminal offense of fraud with the value added tax.
From the preliminary verification accrued by specialists of the Tax Investigation Directorate, it goes to over $ 9 million. But investigators doubt that this amount may be several times bigger. This is because it is thought that part of this scheme is a large chain of subjects that are being verified. From police records it is learned that Sokol Lami and other businessmen had invited different people to open a business.
In all the cases, commercial firms were phantom without a physical address or commercial activity. Subsequently, through open subjects, processing and creating volumes and tax fictitious invoices were created. These invoices were reflected in fiscal boxes and registered in the tax system, subsequently disbursing funds from the VAT reimbursement scheme./tvklan.al