Anti-fraud inspectors have discovered a company in Neamt county, which operates in the field of precious metal jewelry trade and is part of a fictitious trading chain, created together with three other entities from Italy, Switzerland and Austria, with the aim of concealing real transactions with precious metals and evade payment obligations to the budget.
According to a press release issued by the National Agency for Fiscal Administration (ANAF), these artificial transactions were also intended to provide an economic operator in Italy with legitimate provenance for a significant quantity of precious metals, but also to confer legality to some transfers of funds between bank accounts in Italy and bank accounts in Romania.
"The ANAF inspectors discovered that the company did not register the erenues for the period 2023-2024 in the accounting records and it did not declare the VAT. At the same time, they also identified a practice of withdrawing funds from the company's assets through a cryptocurrency trading platform. In this way, the amounts received by the company were unjustifiably reduced, by changing them into cryptocurrencies and subsequently transferred to various virtual wallets. Thus, the Fiscal Anti-fraud Directorate General (DGAF) inspectors estimated additional amounts to be paid of more than 72 million RON, representing duties and taxes and initiated the necessary steps for the criminal prosecution," the release reads.
In order to be able to establish the real circuit of the goods, ANAF inspectors collaborated with the Swiss tax authorities, but also with those of the intra-community area, exchanging information with them.
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