Slovak police cracks down on tax fraud gang

Slovakia's anti-crime agency (NAKA) has managed to break up an organised group specialised in tax evasion in import deals, police chief Tibor Gaspar announced at a press conference in Bratislava on Thursday. Four members of the group have been charged. The documented damage to the state budget amounts to 2.45 million euros. According to Gaspar, the gang created a billing network of eight companies, which imported soybeans, oil-seed rape and other agricultural products from Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic, then distributing them via a chain of companies to the end customers. Frontmen, often of poor social status, were appointed as managing directors of the companies.