False invoices in Taza: provincial council president and 11 defendants referred to court
The president of the provincial council of Taza and eleven co-defendants will appear on 17 April before the court in Fès for tax fraud and false invoices.
Network of false invoices in Taza: twelve defendants including provincial council president before court
The president of the provincial council of Taza, two of his brothers and nine other co-defendants will be tried on 17 April next before the court of first instance in Fès, according to fr.le360.ma. All have been remanded in custody and are being prosecuted for tax fraud and issuing false invoices issued in the name of fictitious companies.
The Public Prosecutor referred the twelve accused before the court of misdemeanours under charges of fraud, falsification of commercial documents and tax evasion through the use of inaccurate invoices, according to information relayed by Al Ahdath Al Maghribia on Tuesday 14 April. Among the accomplices are an engineer, a contractor, a merchant, a businessman, several intermediaries as well as two businesswomen entrepreneurs. All defendants have been placed in preventive custody at Bourkaiz prison.
The investigation began following a report from the public prosecutor's office denouncing the existence of a network specialising in the manufacture of fraudulent accounting documents. According to the conclusions of investigators, the network had established shell companies — benefiting from the protection of influential persons — in order to issue, for remuneration, false invoices in the name of client companies. These documents allowed the latter to artificially increase their declared expenses to the tax authority, thereby reducing their taxable profits and, consequently, the amount of taxes owed.
Searches carried out by the National Brigade of the Judicial Police (BNPJ) made it possible to seize numerous pieces of evidence: documents related to the creation of fictitious companies, falsified invoices, chequebooks, numerous ink stamps as well as electronic equipment containing digital traces of this illegal activity, according to Al Ahdath Al Maghribia.
This judicial procedure is part of a broader offensive conducted by the General Directorate of Taxation (DGI) aimed at dismantling several networks engaged in tax fraud, in coordination with police services and judicial authorities. Dozens of suspects, suspected of creating fictitious companies to carry out fraudulent financial and commercial operations, have already been arrested throughout the country.
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