treasury chiefs have created false expenses to benefit entrepreneurs – publico

 
         

                 

                         
                     

                         

                 

 
 

The employees of tax authorities arrested on suspicion of corruption, improper receipt and computer falsehood would offer a range of services to businesses and other taxpayers who pay them large sums of money. Since creating false expenses to reduce the tax payable, to pass false declarations of settlement of debts to the tax authorities or to develop applications to request the return of fines, disclose tax and property information of third parties and to provide tax advice.

With the granting of illegal benefits, the suspects have injured the treasury several million euros, and lack the researchers made a detailed accounting of the damage. False claims of settlement of debts to the tax authorities have allowed, for example, entrepreneurs participate in public tenders, which they should be sealed.

Among the 15 arrested yesterday by the Judicial Police in a mega-operation carried out by the National Anti-Corruption Unit in the Greater Lisbon area are in addition to three technical finance three division heads and a tax inspector. All were part of the Finance Department of Lisbon. Two are heads of finance division of Lisbon 8, in the district of Alvalade, Lisbon and 6, in the neighborhood of the Incarnation, and another is deputy head of the tax office in Lisbon 4 in Arroios. In 120 searches conducted this operation, called Tax Free , the services were visited where these responsible work and some where they had previously been.

a lawyer, a member was also detained Center for fiscal Studies and Customs Revenue Authority, four officers accountants, two businessmen and a tax advisor. All were transported to the prison attached to the headquarters of the PJ in Lisbon, where they will spend the night on Tuesday. Already on Wednesday will be identified and will begin to be heard by an investigating judge who later apply them to their coercive measures which will be subject during the course of the investigation.

On Tuesday, the time lunch, PJ announced it had arrested 15 people, “among which are employees, lawyers, officers entrepreneurs and accountants for the alleged crimes of bribery and accepting bribes for illegal acts, improper receipt of benefit and falsehood Computing”. There were made more defendants.

First, as the Attorney General’s Office (PGR) divulged that among the suspects was a “director of the Tax Authority services (AT), a Director of deputy finance a member of the Center for Fiscal Studies and Customs Revenue Authority “. Only the latter is confirmed. PUBLIC failed to explain why among the suspects arrested, the only defendant in the investigation are not after all holders of those positions announced by the PGR.

In response to the news of the searches in the AT services, which are in responsibility of the Ministry of Finance, the protection was limited to confirm that “the ongoing operation was done with the cooperation” of aT itself, “that coadjuvou” PJ. For the president of the Tax Workers Union (STI), Paul Ralha, “there is no question the suitability of most workers’ tax machine. “Given the known data, we are talking about people with leadership positions in management positions or management, which may have established relationships with members of civil society – tax specialists, lawyers, chartered accountants,” he said

<. p> also the Trade Union Association of Professionals of the Tax Inspection and Customs argued that the professional competence of aT employees can not be called into question.