The Guardia Civil and the Tax Agency, within the framework of operation DROSIPAN-TERMINO, have dismantled a criminal organisation that used a network of fictitious instrumental companies located in Portugal to introduce vehicles into Spain from Germany.
Once in Spain, the group sold the vehicles through distribution companies without the corresponding payment of taxes. With this mechanism, the organisation would have introduced vehicles worth 35.3 million euro between 2017 and 2021, defrauding 7.3 million euro of VAT (IVA) quotas.
As part of the operation, eight people have been arrested, including the head of the organisation, as well as other leaders and organisers of the plan, accomplices and beneficiaries of the fraud.
Similarly, six home searches have been made in the towns of Albacete, Bellreguard (Valencia), VilagarcÃa de Arousa (Pontevedra) and AlmerÃa, which have allowed the seizure of 15 vehicles valued at one and a half million euro and abundant documentation on paper and computerised information on the fraudulent operations detected and whose analysis will allow adding evidence to those already obtained in the judicial investigation so far.
At the same time, precautionary measures have been adopted with the blocking of bank accounts of the companies involved in the fraud scheme.
