Anti-corruption police accuse five people of large-scale tax evasion

The police’s anti-corruption squad Kobra has charged five people with large-scale tax evasion, police spokesperson Jaroslav Ibehej told the ctk news agency. The group, operating in sales of electronics, had established a chain of business companies with the help of which they issued fictitious invoices for non-existent business transactions. The damage to state coffers is estimated at around 112 million crowns.

Kobra was set up in June of 2014 to help reduce the staggering sum of approximately 150 billion crowns that the country loses annually through tax evasion. In the first year of its existence it prevented tax evasion to the tune of 1.9 billion crowns and provided evidence on the grounds of which 200 people were charged.