More than a dozen people were arrested on suspicion of active and passive corruption in an investigation involving officers and employees of Finance and entrepreneurs with debts to the tax authorities, the prosecutor said General of the Republic.
According to the PGR, among the suspects are technical tax administration, tax inspectors, finance chiefs, a services director of the tax Authority, a director of finance assistant, a center member Tax and Customs Studies, lawyers, chartered accountants and business.
“At issue are alleged links have been established between some suspects, officials of the Tax Authority, and official accounts technicians, lawyers, businessmen , other service providers in the tax area and taxpayers who show themselves willing to pay monetary amounts or other amounts to be supplied to them tax information, bank or property of third parties and tax advice, “stated the press release from the PGR.
essentially, the research contained focuses on the practice suspicions by employees of the Tax Authority (aT), violators acts of their functional duties in exchange for money or other goods.
the operation involved the realization of 100 house searches and non domiciliary in the Greater Lisbon area, including the law firms, companies and also jobs in the Tax Authority, having been made more than a dozen arrests.
the investigation was led by the 9th Chamber of the Department of investigation and Penal Action (DIAP) of Lisbon, in conjunction with the National Unit for Combating Corruption of the Judicial Police and the Tax Authority, having participated in the proceedings six judges from the Ministry . public four judges and more than 200 members of the judicial Police
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