Officers and employees of the Lower Silesian Customs and Tax Office in Wrocław dismantled a criminal group that issued fictitious invoices in the construction industry. – Since 2023, during the investigation, further arrests of people connected with the scheme have been made – says Agnieszka Rzeźnicka-Gniadek, press spokesperson for the Lower Silesian KAS. – On 10 June 2025, the last, tenth person from the criminal group was detained.
Those detained are members of an organized criminal group that provided fictitious construction services and pretended to conduct business activity. The spokesperson said: – The group’s members put so-called blank invoices worth PLN 15 million into circulation, thereby reducing their tax liabilities by PLN 5 million.
Evidence secured
Since 2023, officers have searched 20 locations in Warsaw, Wrocław and the surrounding areas, securing, among other things, accounting records, money in various currencies, jewelry, illegal firearms and drugs.
KAS secured assets belonging to the suspects—real estate, money and gold—worth PLN 7 million.
Charges against those detained
Agnieszka Rzeźnicka-Gniadek:
At the prosecutor’s office, those detained were charged, among other things, with invoice fraud: issuing unreliable VAT invoices of significant value or using such invoices to commit tax fraud and make this practice a permanent source of income.
One person—by court decision—spent six months in pre-trial detention; the prosecutor applied bail to the others.
Court proceedings against the accused are currently underway. Members of the criminal group face up to 15 years in prison.