• There are five people detained: three members of a family who ran the organization, a tax advisor and a front man.

• The balances of 49 bank accounts have been blocked.

March 31, 2022.- The Tax Agency has dismantled a criminal organization that defrauded more than three million euros in VAT and Corporate Tax in the nautical sector. Five people have been arrested in the operation.

The investigations began in June 2021, when the Murcia Regional Inspection Unit detected a commercial plot with allegedly false cross-billing and partially simulated economic activity. The plot was controlled by a family group through front men.

After the first investigations, the Special Delegation of the Tax Agency in Murcia reported the alleged crimes in the Cartagena Guard Court, requesting the appointment of the Customs Surveillance Service as judicial police and the Tax Inspection Unit as judicial assistance.

During the first quarter of 2022, the premises and centers where the direction and management of the plot could be carried out were identified and located, and the people allegedly responsible were identified.

Finally, on March 21, within the framework of the Preliminary Procedures of the Investigative Court No. 1 of Cartagena, the entry and search actions were carried out at the homes of the suspects, a consulting room and several industrial warehouses, in the provinces of Madrid, Barcelona and Cartagena. Documentation and information media relating to the commercial operations and tax returns of the fraud scheme were seized in the records.

The alleged crimes against the Public Treasury reported after the analysis of the documentation correspond to an estimated VAT fraud of 2.7 million euros, and half a million euros in Corporate Tax.

In addition to the searches, the blocking of 49 bank accounts of companies involved in the plot has been requested and five people have been arrested – three members of a family who ran the organization, a tax advisor and a front man – and are accused of of crimes against the Public Treasury, accounting and document falsification.

The regional Inspection units of Murcia and Catalonia have participated in the operation, as well as the National Fraud Investigation Office and the regional Customs Surveillance areas of the special delegations of the Tax Agency in Murcia, Madrid and Catalonia.