The Public Ministry (MP) accused the owner of the Fair of Fabrics company, Serafim Martins, a crime of qualified tax fraud and other aggravated criminal association, and also charged six people and 13 companies in the case Farm White . The scheme has caused a loss of over 7.3 million euros to the State between 2010 and 2015, accounts for the prosecution.
The information is the final dispatch more than 1200 pages delivered by the Department of Investigation and Penal Action (DIAP) Porto, dated Thursday, that in addition to accusing the textile entrepreneur, considers five other defendants, including the financial director of the Fair of fabrics, such as “co-perpetrators of a criminal association crime and a qualified tax fraud crime.” The other suspect is a Croatian accused of qualified tax fraud only. The DIAP chose not accusing three of the nine defendants, dismissing the case for these.
The group is suspected to have damaged the state with the non-payment of IRC and the improper receipt of VAT through a scheme which had several front companies created in Spain and which official holders served only foreheads of iron. These firms serve to simulate the movement of goods and money, often through the use of false invoices.
In the indictment, the MP accounts that fraud caused a loss of 7,383,402 euros to State. “By reference to the years 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014 and the months of January and February 2015, the criminal organization led by accused Serafim Martins, succeeded in obtaining illegitimately a patrimonial advantage that imported actual loss to the tax administration in corporate income tax and VAT is calculated on the total value of 7,383,402 euros, “reads the indictment.
prosecutors write that Serafim Martins “created an organization with the necessary human and business, with the sole purpose (…) to achieve financial advantage illegitimate at the expense of the assets of the tax administration of the State, always looking act under the cover of a seemingly legitimate business. “
the Croatian, you need the MP, create companies and took their managements on paper,” knowing that they are not dedicated to any effective activity, serving only to the corresponding non-billing issue with actual transactions, in particular after intra-Community acquisition of goods also merely apparent. “
the indictment states that Seraphim Martins has been convicted four times in recent years, in cases already concluded and not subject to appeal. He was twice convicted of the embezzlement crime against social security, once a document forgery and, in the worst case, for simple tax evasion. In this process, the entrepreneur was sentenced to a term of two years imprisonment, suspended and subject to the payment of almost 1.3 million euros to the Tax Authority.
The case Farm White became public in May 2015 because of the fight against tax fraud operation in the textile sector developed by the Judicial Police (PJ) and led to the arrest of businessman during a pilgrimage on foot to Fatima.
the order amends the restrictive measures already in place for some defendants, but keeps two of them in custody, including Serafim Martins. May 10, 2015, an investigating judge decreed remand for three of the nine defendants under the operation Farm White and the remaining six to coercive measure periodic presentations.
Pedro Marinho Falcão lawyer who defends the owner of Fair company of fabrics and three defendants, said this Friday Lusa that will require the investigation of the case. “There is no element with consistency, point to the existence of an organizational structure geared to crimes of tax, or any other nature, and therefore intend at this stage defense, demonstrate the hoax of charge through the education gap, “said Marinho Falcão.
the remaining six had to report to periodically authorities and is prohibited from contact with the defendants and Leave the country. With Lusa
corrected News at 16:55: Corrected number of the order for prosecution pages.
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