In the framework of Operation Sumatra, developed by the Tax Agency and the National Police

• The investigation is focused on the study of an organization, which had been operating since 2013, dedicated to the import of goods by undervaluing the values declared to customs, resulting in fraud against the Public Treasury.

May 29, 2018 .- Today, and jointly between the Tax Agency and the National Police, a police operation is being carried out in several Spanish provinces against an organization made up of Chinese citizens involved in crimes of tax fraud and money laundering and membership in a criminal organization. Numerous arrests of Chinese citizens are being carried out, as well as searches of their private homes and the registered offices of the companies they run, some of which are located in the Cobo Calleja Industrial Estate, located in the Madrid municipality of Fuenlabrada. The operation is being directed by the Investigative Court No. 4 of Móstoles, which has declared the proceedings secret.

The investigation began in mid-2017 following a complaint filed by the Central Unit for Economic and Tax Crime (UDEF central) of the General Commissariat of Judicial Police. The National Fraud Investigation Office (ONIF) of the Tax Agency subsequently joined the investigation once the preliminary proceedings were opened by the court.    
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   
The investigation is focused on the study of an organization dedicated to the import of goods from China, destined for Spain, undervaluing the values declared to customs with the consequent fraud to the Public Treasury in both import duties and VAT. as in Corporate Tax.
The organisation, which controls both production in China and the subsequent marketing of the products in Europe, specialises in the electronics sector (batteries, mobile phone accessories, etc.) and lighting (LEDs, halogens, fluorescent tubes, etc.), selling many of the products under its own brand in both physical and virtual stores.

The organization has been operating since at least 2013, using different companies, some of which have been around for a long time. During the investigation, the existence of hidden sales was detected, for which the organization has a network of salespeople distributed throughout Spain who are responsible for collecting cash and which, therefore, escape the control of the Public Treasury.

The crimes investigated are crimes against the Public Treasury, money laundering and membership in a criminal organization. The estimated fraud from 2013 to 2017 amounts to almost 7 million euros.

The operation involves arrests, raids and searches of private homes and business headquarters in the provinces of Madrid, Toledo, Pontevedra, Alicante, Valencia and Barcelona. The operation involves agents from the National Police and officials from the ONIF of the Tax Agency from the inspection units of Valencia, Alicante, Toledo and Barcelona.