2023-12-16 15:23:12
More than fifty businessmen were arrested in Chile on charges of having organized a network to evade taxes worth some 270 million dollars. It is the largest tax fraud ever discovered in the country.
First modification: 12/16/2023 – 14:23
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“It is the largest tax fraud in national history,” said Marcelo Freyhoffer, deputy legal director of the Internal Revenue Service (SII), in a press conference.
The organization defrauded the State in recent years through the issuance of false invoices.
The businessmen must respond for illicit association and money laundering, among other crimes, as ringleaders of this scheme for producing false invoices, the prosecutor’s office detailed in a message to the media.
As part of the operation against this network, the police raided 90 homes in 10 of the 16 regions of Chile on Thursday.
The investigation began in 2016, when the SII detected that a group of medium-sized companies issued false tax documents to evade taxes.
No details have been provided about the identities of the accused or the companies involved, but the SII stated that they are “medium-sized companies.”
Among them is one that exported “used cell phones that were not in good condition to obtain a VAT refund,” Freyhoffer added.
Chile was shaken in 2015 by the so-called “Penta Case”, which involved one of the most important economic groups in the country and uncovered a deep-rooted illegal practice of financing politics, through the use of some 1,000 invoices or receipts for services. not lent.
In this way, companies managed to lower taxes and influence legislators.
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