From a few years in the past, members of the prison group in Chalkida appear to have “unfold the online” of extortion. The conversations obtainable to the authorities and the blue pocket book, the place the director of the DOU stored notes with names of extorted individuals, quantities and dates, are revealing. With the intention to reveal the magnitude of the fraud, the AADE ordered a re-check of all instances over a interval of 5 years, particularly in instances of VAT refunds.
They’re anticipated to seem earlier than the investigator on Friday (24/5) to plead responsible to the intense prices dealing with the arrested tax officers and the 2 personal people arrested by the Inner Affairs Service in Chalkida.
They’re the 50-year-old Head of Chalkida Secondary College, the 52-year-old Vice-Director, three workers aged 67, 54 and 50, a 56-year-old girl who had the function of administrator in addition to a 62-year-old accountant. The case file additionally consists of an worker of the tax workplace, 4 accountants and a personal particular person who weren’t arrested because the deadline had expired.
The pinnacle of the tax workplace, who’s described as the top of the prison group, allegedly instructed the police: “earlier than I even took my place as head of the D.O.Y. Chalkida in September 2023, I knew that there have been officers who obtained unlawful sums of cash for offering tax “amenities” to firms. After I assumed the place of Head, I used to be approached by …. (acknowledged the title of the 67-year-old worker who was arrested) and … (acknowledged the title of the 56-year-old dispatcher who was additionally arrested), stating that the way in which they’ve been performing for thus a few years, everyone seems to be happy and I may have further earnings to assist my very own wants, persuading me to take part as a Supervisor within the unlawful actions.”
AADE: Scrutiny on the DOU Chalkida – All suspicious instances are re-checked
From this morning (23/5) the auditors of the Directorate of Inner Affairs of the Unbiased Public Income Authority have been going by way of the information of the DOU Chalkida, primarily based on the conclusion of the Hellenic Police.
Already, the prosecuted supervisors have been dismissed from their positions, whereas all the prosecuted workers have been relieved of their duties. On the identical time, the method started to place them on vacation inside 30 days, as offered by legislation.
Concerning DOU Chalkida, the Governor of AADE, Giorgos Pitsilis, gave an order to
• Re-checking of all suspicious instances, particularly these regarding VAT refunds
• Full administration management in depth of 5 years and
• Switch of audit instances from the DOU of Chalkida, to the audit facilities of Attica, with the auditors of this specific service becoming a member of ELKE Attica, however with out auditing the instances of taxpayers of Evia, in addition to all the workers of the particular Tax Workplace.
On the identical time, the income assortment procedures will likely be included in KEBEIS Attica and the capital in KEFOK Attica. These strikes are a part of the broader planning that has already been introduced and began to be carried out in Attica and Thessaloniki for the disconnection of audit and assortment procedures from contact with the tax authorities.
The supervisor’s dialogue with the accountant
In one of many alleged telephone conversations that the supervisor had with the accountant who participated within the ring, they presumably focus on, amongst different issues, that … has 75,000 euros within the financial institution and that “Ah, he has unfastened change”.
Accountant: … was supposed to return, let’s name him … he did not come. So…
Supervisor: … has 75,000 within the financial institution now, we opened the accounts.
Accountant: How a lot does he have?
Director: 75
Accountant: Oh, he is acquired some change.
Headmistress: She has some change.
Accountant: And the place will he get 600?
Principal: Sure, it has.
Accountant: Ought to we take the case?
Principal: I do not know. That is why I am nonetheless holding on to you.
Accountant: I am rethinking it now.
Principal: Sure, I do not know.
Accountant: I’ve these reservations too.
The Inner Affairs operation and arrests passed off on Tuesday morning.
In one other dialog, the lavish life-style of the Deputy Director of DOU is recorded, who made costly purchases and costly journeys that weren’t in keeping with the wage of a civil servant, and in reality each the “mastermind” and different members of the circle had begun to worry that he could be perceived by their very own flagrant wastes:
Principal of DOU: What nice? You are not telling me, what is the Assistant Supervisor doing in Chicago?
DOU Clerk: Did Chicago go?
Principal: Sure
DOU worker: You may see them too
Principal: Sure
DOU worker: You may see them too
Principal of DOU: She went to a resort that makes 500 euros a day.
DOU worker: Oh, and also you wish to give him quite a bit too, proper? Give him a thousand and the thousand will likely be value it. I am going to choke you when you give him extra.
“Some arrests had been made with the spontaneous process. A citizen was popping out of the tax workplace who a short while in the past left an envelope, to an individual in an workplace after which we went in and arrested them” stated the press consultant of EL.AS on the present “Connections”. Constantia Dimoglidou.
The taxpayer – sufferer of the ring – later reported to the cops: “I handed over to the Head, inside her workplace, a closed envelope, white in colour, which contained 10,000 euros, following extortion by workers of the above Service for injury to my enterprise. It isn’t the primary time, and on 17-05-2024, a Friday, one thing comparable had occurred earlier than.”
Through the investigation within the headmistress’s workplace, the sum of 10,000 euros and the envelope containing the banknotes had been discovered and confiscated.
Okay. Hatzidakis: I didn’t enter politics to cowl thieves
The Minister of Nationwide Financial system and Finance Kostis Hatzidakis stated on this regard “I didn’t enter politics to cowl thieves. I’ve adhered to this precept for the reason that first second I entered politics and I repeat the identical message at this time on the event of the case on the Secondary College of Chalkida. The systematic work of ELAS, AADE and the judicial authorities proves our sturdy will to confront any type of illegality even when it originates within the Public Administration itself. And it’s apparent that we’ll not cease right here.”
The handwritten notes
The authorities have focused 4 confiscated notebooks. Within the workplace of the top of the tax workplace, a pocket book was discovered through which the names of members of the group and people concerned, dates and sums of cash are written.
The grievance that led to the arrests
The investigation started after a telephone name to inner affairs, a sufferer of the group, on the finish of November 2023, who allegedly named the supervisor and an worker revealing that he had additionally given cash.
He’s reported to have stated “I handed over the sum of 5,000 euros to be launched from their blackmail. The negotiations passed off within the worker’s workplace…”.
By resolution of the AADE, the concerned tax officers had been placed on short-term go away and a disciplinary investigation was ordered towards them.
“Our zero tolerance is self-evidently non-negotiable for any type of delinquency, wherever it comes from,” identified the commander of AADE, Giorgos Pitsilis.
To date, 17 instances of extortion of taxpayers have been solved, from which the group obtained at the very least 95,600 euros, over a interval of three months.
Supply: ertnews
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