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UAE Attorney General Dr. Hamad Saif Al Shamsi has ordered the referral to criminal trial of 15 defendants of different Arab nationalities, some of whom are in custody and others are fugitives for whom an arrest warrant has been issued.
The list of charges included 12 companies for committing crimes such as falsifying official documents, money laundering and tax evasion.
Investigations conducted by the Federal Prosecutor for tax evasion under the direct supervision of the Attorney General revealed that they formed a criminal gang guilty of falsifying official documents attributed to the Ministry of Economy, the Chamber of Commerce, the customs and other entities, allowing them to unlawfully seize the value of value added tax refunds on fictitious goods that they claimed to have purchased, paid for and exported abroad with the connivance of companies that they had set up specifically to carry out the criminal to achieve the goal, and they seized for themselves the amounts of value added taxes on import operations payable to the Federal Tax Authorities.
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The total amounts seized by the suspect amounted to over Dh107 million, in addition to concealing and disguising the source of the illicit proceeds derived from these crimes through money laundering.
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