Niet alle winsten blijken schoon te zijn. Geval: Belastingontduiking en witwassen ⬇️ Over meerdere jaren. 

Not all profits are clean. Case: Tax evasion and money laundering ⬇️ Over several years, companies registered in Latvia made payments for fictitious transactions to entities in other EU Member States, laundering funds and evading taxes. ➡️Fictitious transactions: payments made without actual services or goods. ➡️Tax evasion: profits disguised as “expenses” to circumvent corporate income tax. ➡️Laundering: funds funneled back into Latvia under the guise of non-existent deals. Inside the scheme: several Latvian legal entities transferred money to companies registered in other EU Member States for fictitious transactions. These foreign companies then engaged in further fictitious transactions among themselves and back to other Latvian and EU companies. This allowed the Latvian companies that initiated the payments to evade corporate income tax while laundering funds that should have contributed to the State budget. The illicitly obtained funds were funneled into Dutch accounts. Read More