Criminal Gang Defrauded €25m VAT on Fuel Oil
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European crime agencies have dismantled a gang that defrauded states of millions of euros in VAT on fuel oil. The gang, based in Spain and Portugal, used a “complex corporate architecture” including shell companies and missing traders, to defraud more than €25m from the hydrocarbon sector. Eurojust, the EU’s crime-fighting agency, said the investigation began […]