Officers of the Customs and Tax Service from the Lower Silesian Customs and Tax Office in Wrocław, working with the Economic Crime Division of the Municipal Police Headquarters in Jelenia Góra, detained a 53-year-old resident of Wałbrzych County. – The investigation established that between January 2019 and September 2024, the entrepreneur, the owner of a transport company, acting jointly and in agreement with other suspects and seeking financial gain, used more than 1,600 unreliable VAT invoices certifying false information in his settlements with the Tax Office, thereby confirming fictitious business operating costs – reports Agnieszka Rzeźnicka-Gniadek, spokesperson for the Lower Silesian National Revenue Administration. – The losses incurred by the State Treasury are estimated at more than PLN 2 million.
Officers searched the locations where the suspect conducted his business activities and secured evidentiary materials in the case.
Spokesperson: – This is another detention in a case in which suspects have so far been charged with tax shortfalls amounting to more than PLN 9 million.
Charges and consequences of tax fraud
At the District Prosecutor’s Office in Jelenia Góra, the detainee was charged with tax fraud and invoice-related offences. KAS:
The suspect was placed under police supervision and required to provide a property bail of PLN 20,000. To secure the potential fine, the prosecutor seized the defendant’s assets worth more than PLN 2 million.
The man will face trial for the crimes committed and could be sentenced to at least three years in prison. The investigation is being conducted under the supervision of the District Prosecutor’s Office in Jelenia Góra.