21/10/2019 (Agence Europe) – Eurojust announced on Monday 21 October the dismantling of an international organized criminal group involved in a major tax fraud and evasion operation in Hungary. Seven persons, including the main suspect, were arrested in cooperation with the Hungarian, Slovak, Polish, British and American authorities, as well as with the assistance of Eurojust and Europol. The main suspect is accused of creating shell companies that have provided false invoices to other companies without actually delivering goods or services. The companies that received these invoices deducted them from their VAT payments in Hungary, which led to a loss of around 4.3 million euros for Hungary between January 2015 and September 2019. 193 premises were searched, 37 people were brought in for hearings and nearly 2.3 million euros in cash and goods were seized, says Eurojust. (MF)