On the morning of December 7, the Keqiao District Branch of the Shaoxing Municipal Public Security Bureau and the First Inspection Bureau of the Shaoxing Municipal Taxation Bureau jointly held a press conference to inform the public security and taxation departments that they had successfully cracked the 5.12 major export tax refund case. After investigation, a cross-provincial criminal gang headed by Cai, Lu, Xu, Jiang, and Wang was suspected of defrauding more than 80 million yuan in national export tax rebates in Fujian and other places. billion yuan, and the illegal trading of foreign exchange amounted to approximately US$80 million.
In May of this year, Keqiao Police received a clue about tax-related crimes from the First Inspection Bureau of the Shaoxing Municipal Taxation Bureau. There were suspicious transactions suspected of illegal operations in the bank account of a Shaoxing textile company. Immediately, in accordance with the relevant requirements of the four-department joint anti-fraud work mechanism, the Keqiao Public Security Economic Investigation Brigade, together with the First Inspection Bureau of the Shaoxing Municipal Taxation Bureau, conducted an in-depth study and judgment of the operation after 6 months based on information such as capital inflows and outflows, ticket flow data, etc. , it was discovered that several criminal-related gangs were suspected of tax fraud, false invoicing and illegal foreign exchange transactions.
On December 1, the Keqiao Public Security Economic Investigation Brigade, under the guidance of the provincial and municipal public security departments, together with the tax inspection department, dispatched 66 police officers to carry out centralized network closing operations in 6 provinces and 8 cities including Fujian, Jiangsu, and Henan.
We launched an in-depth crackdown on the cross-provincial criminal gang headed by Xu, Cai, Lu, Jiang and Wang to defraud export tax refunds. A total of 18 criminal suspects were arrested, including three cases of falsely issuing special value-added tax invoices. gangs, 2 underground bank criminal gangs, 1 tax fraud criminal gang, and a batch of related crime tools were seized.
The principal culprit, Xu, had been engaged in the textile business in Keqiao, Shaoxing as early as 1990. In 2013, Xu was in debt due to guaranteeing for a certain company. He suddenly owed 150 million yuan. Later, he was imprisoned for contract fraud. Since 2018, Xu got acquainted with some idle people in society and came up with the idea of defrauding the country’s export tax rebates.
In order to “turn over”, through the introduction of “friends”, he contacted criminal gangs from other provinces for tax fraud, false issuance of special value-added tax invoices, and underground banks. He used customs declaration data for purchasing export goods from market procurement entities, purchased U.S. dollars from underground banks, The method of falsely issuing special value-added tax invoices, “paying the bill and matching the invoice” becomes general trade, falsely reporting the export of goods, and defrauding the national export tax refund. His “business” is getting bigger and bigger, and he even rented a floor in a commercial office building in Yuecheng District, making a profit of more than 10 million yuan.
Currently, 18 criminal suspects have been subject to criminal coercive measures, and the case is under further review. Severe legal punishment awaits them.
The successful detection of the case effectively combated the arrogance of tax fraud criminals, greatly safeguarded the social and economic order of the textile city, and recovered huge tax losses for the country.
In order to severely crack down on tax fraud crimes and purify Keqiao’s business environment, in recent years, Keqiao Public Security has taken multiple measures to protect the economic development of the textile city. Under the guidance of the provincial and municipal economic investigation departments, it has established an “Intelligence Guidance and Investigation Workstation” to carry out research and analysis. , accurately crack down on tax-related crime cases, and establish a “Police and Tax Liaison Room” with the tax department to achieve data sharing and timely discovery of criminal clues. Based on the “Police-Enterprise Liaison Room”, we carry out warning publicity on tax fraud cases, so that companies can operate in accordance with the law. Pay taxes in compliance with regulations and encourage them to report tax-related clues in a timely manner.
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