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Articles tagged with: Hmrc and Eu
Twenty-One People Jailed in the UK for Mobile Phone Smuggling
Twenty-one people have been jailed in the UK for a collective 133 years after being convicted for stealing £138 million in tax fraud - typically involving shipping mobile phones to evade sales taxes. The UK's HM Revenue & Customs (hmrc) carried out three separate investigations, one involving four people; a second which involved twelve people and a third involving seven men. more
Multi-Million Dollar Phone Tax Fraud Blocked
A suspected EUR165 (US$212) million phone fraud has been disrupted during a joint UK and German operation against VAT carousel fraud. Codenamed 'Operation Sunrise', mixed teams of UK and German customs officers were deployed on the Swiss - German border and at Frankfurt airport to gather intelligence about the movement of goods into the European Union. more
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