the Customs suspects the criminals brought to Finland million euros worth of medicines and other products illegally. Finland is imported from the united states, inter alia, about 772 000 medicine tablets without fimea’s permission. In addition, the country has imported around 200,000 doping tablets.
channel islands registered company bought in the united states the food, feed and medicines and doping substances classified products. After trying each of those to the Åland islands and sold via the online shop EU-area. There was two companies, one of which was åland.
the Goods were brought on the wrong tariff headings, which they paid tax, clearly less than it should have. In addition, the customs declaration was recorded that as the wrong company, which is illegal. Åland try to take Finland sent the products of his own name and had to reduce import vat in their tax factors.
in the Figure was utilized åland’s special tax status (switch to another service).
the Customs suspects that the companies evaded tax deliberately. A suspect of a crime the benefit is at least eur 2.2 million.
the Customs has been investigating the case on suspicion of serious doping crime, aggravated tax fraud as, as an aggravated customs clearance offence, drug offences as smuggling and doping as a criminal offence. Suspects is 12. Part of the suspects is Finnish, part of the other countries.
the criminal entity moves to the prosecutor’s office in November.
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