The 20-square-meter small shop at the mouth of the village actually made tens of millions of yuan in profits and illegally purchased more than 100 million yuan of foreign exchange? Starting from this clue, which lasted nearly two years of meticulous investigation, recently, the police in Jinhua, Zhejiang And the State Administration of Foreign Exchange jointly cracked an extraordinarily large underground money bank case, involving an amount of up to 22 billion yuan.
Enterprises that illegally purchase more than 100 million yuan of foreign exchange are all leather bag companies
This case was first found in the foreign exchange transactions of Yiwu merchants. The Jinhua Municipal Public Security Bureau's investigation detachment found in its work that a large amount of renminbi flowed to Yiwu in the Chaoshan area of Guangdong, and the Jinhua City Center Branch of the State Administration of Foreign Exchange also found that a large amount of foreign exchange frequently remitted to the Chaoshan area of Guangdong by Yiwu merchants.
Yiwu and Chaoshan region are export-oriented economies, suddenly, tens of billions of yuan of huge funds in the two places frequent exchanges, such abnormal foreign exchange and RMB flows and the actual trade situation is seriously inconsistent, what is the "big deal" between the two places?
The police came to the Chaoshan area of Guangdong And found that many enterprises with profits of tens of millions of yuan and illegal purchases of foreign exchange of more than 100 million yuan were leather bag companies, including even a 20-square-meter small shop at the mouth of the village. There are more than 100 such enterprises in the Chaoshan region.
Tao Yining, a police officer of the Public Security Bureau of Wuyi County, Jinhua City, Zhejiang Province: A small workshop with only a dozen square meters is reported by the tax department for exports of tens of millions of yuan a month, which is a serious discrepancy.
Enterprises with such a production and operation scale should set up regular factories in industrial parks, with at least 100 production employees, but these companies do not have factories, even production workshops, no production machines, just a few plastic toy samples.
In addition, the investigators found that the president of a local industry association, seven or eight companies under his name, but the operation of a year of bankruptcy, and then set up a number of new companies, the name is similar to the original, such as the previous call "Haoxin Plastic Toys Co., Ltd.", registered in 2017, deregistered in 2019, and then renamed "Hongxin Plastic Toys Co., Ltd." The previous company named "Worldcom Co., Ltd." was transformed into "New Vision Co., Ltd."
Digging deep into the chain of crimes leads to major tax fraud cases
So, why do these shell companies in the Chaoshan region of Guangdong province that frequently change their names and surnames emerge one after another, and what do they do to buy hundreds of millions of yuan of foreign exchange? Following the clue of illegal foreign exchange trading, the police actually led to an even larger amount of tax fraud cases. The company went to the underground money house to buy foreign exchange, which is the first step, and the larger purpose is to declare export tax rebate subsidies.
The three prerequisites for tax refund declaration are the settlement of the water bill, the customs declaration form, and the special invoice. After the criminal gang settles the foreign exchange it bought, it then buys customs declarations and value-added tax invoices, imitates the illusion of normal export of enterprises, and then goes to the tax department to defraud the corresponding tax rebate subsidies.
Li Hao, deputy director of the Public Security Bureau of Wuyi County, Jinhua City, Zhejiang Province: The company of criminal suspects is actually a corporatized operation, with special financial and management personnel, settlement personnel, and customs declaration personnel.
The reporter came to the Wuyi County Property Management Center and got the suspect's mobile phone, and the WeChat record was full of a large number of "foreign exchange purchase" groups and "tax declaration" groups, with hundreds of records.
Tao Yining, police officer of wuyi County Public Security Bureau in Jinhua City, Zhejiang Province: One of the gangs said that the scale of what they are doing now is one Audi A4 a day, and the next goal is to make a BMW 5 Series a day, and the profit is so high in a day.
In this case, the illegal trading of foreign exchange and the fraudulent acquisition of export tax rebates formed an inseparable criminal chain. Due to the explosive growth in the demand for foreign exchange purchased by criminal gangs in the Chaoshan area of Guangdong, the scale of foreign exchange supply in Yiwu's underground money banks has expanded sharply, and the previous "foreign exchange scalpers" have also changed from single-handed to large-scale "money banks". The owner of the "money house" has also developed from simply buying and selling foreign exchange to providing one-stop service for customs declaration and tax rebate.
As the clues of the case gradually became clearer, the Ministry of Public Security and the State Administration of Foreign Exchange set up an on-site joint command center in the Jinhua Public Security Bureau in Zhejiang Province, directly directing the public security organs in Zhejiang, Guangdong, Luzhou, Fujian and other places to carry out unified arrest operations.
It is understood that the collection network destroyed a total of 7 underground money banks, falsely issued special VAT invoices, defrauded 7 export tax rebate gangs, arrested 42 criminal suspects, frozen more than 600 various types of fund accounts involved in the case, and frozen more than 160 million yuan of funds involved in the case.
▌Source of this article: CCTV Finance
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