DNA has detained 5 people in the evasion file with luxury cars SH sold without VAT. Injury over 19 million euros

Reasons in the file in which companies that were selling second-hand luxury cars are targeted without paying VAT. Five administrators and representatives of some companies were detained by the DNA for continuous tax evasion. Also, an inspector of the Iasi Public Finance Administration and two other persons were under judicial control. The damage exceeds 96 million lei (19.4 million euros).

DNA has detained several people in the used car file Photo shutterstock

The prosecutors of the National Anticorruption Directorate detained them for 24 hours, starting on Thursday, September 4, on five defendants: Gigel Bracaci, Andreas Bracaci, Gabriel Nenear, Dorel Butcovan, and Gabriel Hăulică. They are administrators or representatives of companies and are detained for tax evasion, in continuous form (auto and/or complicity).

Also, Florin, Butcovan Raul Bogdan and Elena-Liliana Beleca, superior inspector of the County Administration of Public Finance Iasi, for complicity in fiscal evasion, in a continuous form.

In the investigation are involved 11 companies, some “in sight”, which sold used luxury cars, and companies used to justify fictitious transactions and to deduce VAT illegally. The scheme included purchases from the EU, artificial traffic of vehicles and VAT sting through cash-paid differences.

“Between 2021 – January 2025, a fraud scheme that involved several interconnected commercial companies that carry out” used “luxury cars purchased from EU countries would have been created, with the final purpose of paying the fiscal obligations due to the state budget, the damage is estimated, to this time, 96.131.255 lei. The interposition, artificially, of some companies (of type “can”) in the purchases of cars from the Community space, under reverse taxation, made by the final beneficiary companies “added DNA.

According to the quoted source, the 11 companies involved acted on two levels:

– companies that operate in sight and that went directly into relationships with customers, took over the orders of cars from them, carried out the procedures for the acquisition of the goods from the intra -Community space, coordinated the logistics operations, performed the formalities prior to registration – when it was the case, and sold the goods directly to the clients, justifying the goods with the purchases. “Bidon”.

– “Bidon” type companies that were artificially interposed in different commercial transactions, so that, based on the supporting documents issued on their behalf, the companies that were real beneficiaries of the mechanism registered expenses and deduced the VAT related to the purchases of cars, and the VAT was compensated from other commercial relations.

“From the administered evidence it turned out that some beneficiary companies would have transferred to the” bidon “type companies the entire value of the cars mentioned in the registered invoices, after which to the external supplier the real value would have been paid, without VAT, the difference being withdrawn in cash and divided between the representatives of the companies involved. It was minimal and at values ​​established by the defendants, so as to simulate a profitable activity, to avoid controls from the tax authorities ”the investigators explained.

In this context, the defendant Beleca Elena-Liliana, although he had the representation of the unfolding, through the companies controlled by the defendants, of some fiscal frauds, on the occasion of the verifications carried out or they initiated, did not follow the elucidation of these aspects, but would have tried to hide the irregularities identified.

“Between August-December 2024, suspecting that the tax authorities that he could not influence would have intended to invent in the companies he manages, the HG defendant, together with other defendants, would have resorted to the procurement, without supporting documents, of stocks from scraps / leather rejections, for a small value, for a few, The reality appearance of some operations carried out in previous years, and in order not to be verified by the control bodies, they would have transported product stocks including in Spain, being stored on the territory of this state, to a company controlled by the BG defendant “the DNA also transmitted.

In order to recover the damage, insurance measures were established on some buildings (houses, apartments, land) worth 31 million lei, on over 50 luxury cars and money found at searches, respectively 307,000 euros, 431,000 lei, 75,000 USD and 2500 pounds.

The defendants were informed the procedural quality and the accusations.

On Thursday, September 4, the five defendants are presented to the Bucharest Court with a proposal for a preventive arrest for 30 days.