0 Police interrogate the suspect. Photo provided by Jingmen police
Jingmen, December 5 (Zhou Weiwei) Registered shell company issued a false VAT special invoice, with the amount involved reaching 1.62 billion yuan (RMB, the same below). HU Jingmen police reported on the 5th that after more than seven months of investigation, the bureau destroyed a gang of falsely issuing value-added tax invoices, arrested 9 criminal suspects, and recovered tax losses of more than 10 million yuan for the country.
In August 2018, the Jingmen Municipal Taxation Bureau discovered in its work that the input invoice of Jingshan Guoxiu Coal Industry Company was abnormal and the amount was huge, so it informed the Jingmen Municipal Public Security Bureau of relevant clues. After receiving the report, the Economic Investigation Detachment of Jingmen Municipal Public Security Bureau immediately dispatched elite police forces to form a special task force to conduct an investigation.
After investigation, Jingshan Guoxiu Coal Industry Company has no office address, no freight yard, and no business personnel, but the special value-added tax invoices issued by the company are coal invoices. From June to July 2018, the company obtained 3,238 special input value-added tax invoices from 71 companies including Shenyang, Shanghai, Hangzhou, etc., with a total price tax of 840 million yuan and a tax amount of 110 million yuan. In addition, the company has issued 688 special value-added tax invoices to 28 companies in Sichuan, Shanxi, Liaoning and other places, with a total price and tax of 780 million yuan and a tax of 100 million yuan. The number of invoices is huge and involves many companies. The task force suspected that there was an organized criminal gang behind the case.
In October 2018, the task force arrested four main suspects, Wang and others in Wuhan, Haikou, Jingshan and other places, and seized more than 10 communication tools and 3 computers involved.
In November 2018, the task force divided into multiple groups and followed the clues and went deep into Xuzhou, Jiangsu, Changzhi, Shanxi, Qinhuangdao, Hebei and other places to arrest three suspects of the downstream ticket company Zhong Mou and others. On March 25, 2019, the police arrested the leader of the gang in Quyang, Hebei, and destroyed the entire criminal network that issued false value-added tax invoices in one fell swoop.
After investigation, Wang, Zhang and Lu have a good buyer's market for false VAT invoices. When registering a shell company, they let strong companies play the role of shareholders to increase the "gold content" of false invoices, and then use several shell companies they control to relay false invoices across regions, and finally let the false VAT special invoices land on physical enterprises. Jingshan Guoxiu Coal Industry Company is a shell company registered and established under this situation, with a shareholder background of a Shanxi energy company.
At present, police in many places have filed cases to crack down on these upstream and downstream enterprises. The case is still under further investigation. (End)
Source: China News Network