The EU's investigative unit EPPO suspects a Danish citizen of being behind a major fraud involving VAT.
The EU's investigative unit EPPO has seized everything from a Lamborghini and a Porsche to 1,800 AirPods after a series of searches at 59 addresses in Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Sweden and Switzerland.
This is what the European Public Prosecutor's Office (EPPO) in Hamburg writes in a press release .
The investigative unit has a Danish citizen suspected of being part of an entire network of masterminds in a case of VAT fraud for 93 million euros, equivalent to almost 700 million kroner.
The Danish citizen is currently in custody together with another suspected mastermind. A third person remains at large in the case.
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In connection with the searches, the Danish citizen managed to escape to Kenya. Here he was arrested in May, to be extradited to Germany a month later.
A German director is also a suspect in the case complex. The EU believes that his company has been used to launder many millions of kroner and defraud the gigantic amounts of VAT.
The case is reminiscent of another action in Germany, where German special forces stormed a building near Motorworld in northern Munich back in April.
With them from the scene, the police took 4 Bugatti Veyrons, which are believed to be part of a larger scam that draws threads all the way to a corruption case as far away as Malaysia. Read more about it here .
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