Eight businessmen in Jaén and Córdoba have been arrested and charged with producing and selling fake invoices and defrauding the Treasury.
The police operation, codenamed ‘Narcis’, began last February and led to the discovery of the issue of fraudulent invoices to the value of more than €1.5 million.
The alleged mastermind of the operation is 48 year old P.R.P. from Marmolejo, Jaén, who allegedly issued 19 invoices, all fake, in the amount of 800,000. The invoices were declared as ‘expenses’ to the Tax Office and included VAT making it a double fraud.
The other businessmen, located in Moriles, Andújar, Bailén, Baeza, and Mengíbar. also submitted fake invoices to the Tax Office. The operation resulted in the arrest of eight people, the investigation of eighteen companies and involves, so far, defrauding the Tax Office of around €2.5 million.