Recently, the police in Keqiao, Shaoxing uncovered a huge case of fraudulently obtaining export tax refunds. The suspect set up a shell company, colluded with foreign businessmen, issued false value-added tax invoices, and opened up underground banks. In four years, he defrauded the state of 80 million yuan in tax refunds, and the turnover was as high as 700 million yuan.
In May last year, inspectors from the First Inspection Bureau of the Shaoxing Municipal Taxation Bureau discovered abnormalities in the capital flow of Shaoxing Fengchi Textile Co., Ltd. during their work.
After further inspection, tax inspectors found that most of the company’s invoices were issued to import and export trading companies in Fuzhou, Ningbo and other places, and then used these trading companies to commit tax fraud. Subsequently, the tax department transferred the clues to Keqiao Public Security Economic Investigation department. Through investigation, the police found that the criminal suspect Xu opened 27 shell companies successively, colluded with foreign businessmen to purchase containers at a price of 15,000 yuan, and used underground banks and falsely issued VAT invoices to meet tax refund requirements, thereby defrauding them. State taxes.
Based on information such as capital inflow and outflow, ticket flow data, and other information, after six months of in-depth research and operation, the task force discovered several gangs suspected of tax fraud, false invoicing and other related crimes, defrauding the national export tax refund of more than 80 million yuan in total. The amount of false issuance in the single laundering process was about 700 million yuan, and the illegal trading of foreign exchange was about 80 million U.S. dollars.
After fully understanding the situation, on December 1, 2021, the police, together with the tax inspection department, deployed 66 police officers to carry out centralized network closing operations in 6 provinces and 8 cities including Fujian, Jiangsu, and Henan, targeting Xu, Cai, Lu, The cross-provincial criminal gang headed by Jiang and Wang carried out an in-depth crackdown on the entire chain and arrested 18 criminal suspects, including three criminal gangs that falsely issued special value-added tax invoices, two underground bank criminal gangs, and one criminal gang. The tax fraud criminal gang seized a number of criminal tools such as invoicing machines and online banking U-shields. After examination, the principal culprit, Xu, was engaged in the textile business in Keqiao, Shaoxing as early as 1990. In 2013, he was in debt due to guaranteeing for a certain company. He owed 150 million yuan in one fell swoop. Later, he was also jailed for contract fraud. prison. 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.
At present, criminal suspect Xu and others have been taken criminal compulsory measures by the police, and the case is still under further investigation.
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