Members of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Anti-Corruption Department of the Criminal Police Directorate, in cooperation with the Tax Police, and by order of the Special Department for Suppression of Corruption of the Higher Public Prosecutor’s Office in Kraljevo, arrested 19 persons, while ten more are being intensively sought, due to the existence of grounds for suspicion that they illegally appropriated about 165.4 million dinars through tax fraud, tax evasion, and money laundering, and damaged the budget of Serbia by more than 40.4 million dinars.
Due to the existence of grounds for suspicion that they committed criminal acts of money laundering, tax fraud in connection with VAT, and tax evasion, responsible persons of four Belgrade-based companies, N. M. (29), K. R. (31), N. K. (37), D. M. (34) and Z. S. (58), were arrested, while the criminal complaint for the same criminal acts also includes the responsible person of another Belgrade company, V. G. (52), who is currently serving a prison sentence.
In the same operation, due to the existence of grounds for suspicion that they committed the criminal offense of money laundering, the owners of ten entrepreneurial businesses J. M. (30), G. Đ. (28), S. J. (28), S. S. (23) and D. B. M. (28), all from Belgrade, V. P. (24) and N. J. (28) from Novi Sad, A. J. (29) and L. M. (25) from Bajina Bašta and M. P. (22) from Smederevska Palanka, as well as natural persons S. Đ. (47), T. Đ. (23) and V. S. (52), all from Belgrade, and A. P. (32) from Novi Sad, were arrested.
It is suspected that N. M., with prior agreement and assistance from the other suspects, repeatedly, in the period from September 2021 to September 2023, by registering false invoices from the entrepreneurial businesses and companies of the suspects in his accounting and by compiling tax returns with false content based on such invoices, reduced the profit and the basis for calculating VAT of the company for which he is the responsible person, thereby damaging the state budget by approximately 40,430,180 dinars through profit tax evasion and VAT reduction. The money of the company for which N. M. is the responsible person was, moreover, unjustifiably “extracted” and converted into cash through the suspected owners of entrepreneurial businesses, companies, and natural persons, totaling 165,347,100 dinars, which the suspects are believed to have unlawfully appropriated.
N. M. and N. K. were detained for up to 48 hours and, along with the other arrestees, were brought before the competent prosecutor’s office with a criminal complaint.
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