After eight months of investigation, a fraud worth around 30 million euros in the last 4 years was discovered. 11 people have been arrested in 5 searches in Alicante and Muchamiel. The organization's bank accounts have been blocked and €140,000, seven properties, 3 vehicles and 8 purebred Spanish horses were seized.

July 30, 2009. The National Police Corps, in a joint investigation with the State Tax Administration Agency (AEAT), have discovered an organized fraud scheme in VAT and Corporate Tax due to the import and sale of footwear and clothing from China. It is one of the largest fraud organizations in the sector that had been operating since 2004.

 

The investigation began in December 2008 and has been carried out jointly by various areas of the Tax Agency (Inspection and Customs) based in Alicante and the Economic and Fiscal Crime Unit (UDEF) of the National Police Corps of Alicante.

 

The fraud committed by the entire plot made up of various companies that followed one another over time, is estimated at 30 million Euros . Appropriate precautionary measures have been adopted to guarantee the collection of defrauded tax debts.

 

The investigation has culminated with the operation carried out on July 28 under the direction of Court No. 1 of Alicante, with the arrest of 11 people (6 of them Chinese citizens), 5 searches in Alicante and 1 in Muchamiel, the intervention of €140,000 in cash, the blocking of all the organization's current accounts, the preventive annotation regarding 7 properties, in addition to the seizure of luxury vehicles, 8 purebred Spanish horses and various documentation that is being analyzed.

 

Beginning of the Investigation.

 

Following the arrest on January 30, 2009 by officials of the Alicante Provincial Judicial Police Brigade of seven Argentine nationals for an alleged CRIME of ROBBERY WITH VIOLENCE AND INTIMIDATION, investigations were initiated by the UDEF in relation to the victim. of the facts, (JAVG), given the lack of justification of the money that was claimed to have been stolen, ONE AND A HALF MILLION EUROS in cash, when on 12/15/2008, it was going to be deposited into a bank in Alicante, according to him, coming from his work activity consisting of receiving large amounts of cash, depositing them in various checking accounts in his name or in the name of some of his companies and subsequently transferring them to accounts opened in China, the money coming from various Chinese-owned companies. linked to footwear.

 

Plot operation 

 

Through a legal commercial activity as an importer of goods of Chinese origin that are sold without issuing invoices to various companies, mainly footwear, located in the town of Elche and managed by Chinese subjects. The result of this hidden activity represents a tax crime that amounts to around thirty million euros in the last four years. The money obtained through million-dollar transfers to different checking accounts located in China is subsequently laundered.

The origin of said money would have to be located in the businesses run by Chinese citizens, with which JAVG It maintains economic traffic, which would serve as justification for the enormous amount of money it sends.

Likewise, the people who collaborate with him in the collection, storage, transmission of money and maintenance of the legal screen that tries to justify the commercial volume maintained have been arrested:

 

• JAVG
• JJR c.
• EJVM
• MPP
• IJRC

 

And those responsible for the commercial companies of Chinese origin, generators of the transferred illicit capital:

 

• AX, N/ 16.01.68
• CC, N/ 05.03.78
• ZW, N/ 15.07.66
• RL, N/ 03.11.69.
• YH, N/ 02.03.62.
• GQ, N/ 15.12.68.

 

In the period investigated, cash transfers to China through the bank accounts of the detainees amounted to ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY MILLION euros.