Food VAT frauders were arrested

Financial investigators found a criminal organization dealing with fictitious business accounts in the South Plains – the National Tax and Customs Office (NAV) informed MTI on Thursday.

Barnáné Horváth Melinda press officer of NAV’s Southern Plains Crime Directorate said that 13 people were interrogated on the matter due to fiscal fraud. The pre-trial detention of eleven of them was ordered by the court.

The companies suspected have caused a total of more than six hundred million forints damage to the state budget. (MTI)