The axe will soon fall. Confirming rumors of "Les echos" share Friday, French authorities launched a cleansing operation of large scale in some questionable business community operating on the market of greenhouse gas emission rights. The public prosecutor of the tribunal de grande instance de Paris announced Friday that four men have been brought on the eve before Jean-Marie of Huy, Vice-President responsible for the instruction to the financial center of Paris, and immediately indicted for suspected of having committed massive frauds on the CO2 market. Remanded in custody, two of them, aged 35à Canada residing in Paris and Neuilly-sur-Seine, must cope with the heavier loads. The other two, under judicial control, are managers of companies-screens intermediates which per passed orders.
Equipped with a significant criminal record, the first two are well known to police and justice because of their re-offending for tax evasion, services learn at the Prosecutor's Office. Current March, he has opened a preliminary inquiry on these men after reporting of Tracfin reached a month earlier. A judicial investigation was opened in June on the basis of the evidence collected by the bloodhounds of the national judicial customs (SNDJ). The prosecution summarized the facts complained: "following suspicious transactions for the sale of quotas of carbon dioxide on the French market Bluenext owned by Nyse Euronext and Caisse des Dépôts, Editor's note in an amount exceeding the 100millions of euros, detected by Tracfin, judicial investigations were thus updated the, for années2008 et2009, mechanisms of transnational fraud of a very large scale to evade payment of VAT due..
The mechanism of the VAT scam was simple and classic. "Through structures and companies-screens created from scratch to this end, to collect VAT, without the refund to the French Treasury, purchasing duty-free rights and in selling all taxes in France carbon foreign brokers", reads in the communiqué of the Prosecutor's Office. But hackers hunting is far from over with the indictment of the four men.
A specific tax regime
Between five and ten additional investigations into the actions of other potential fraudsters are underway and were likely to lead to the discovery of other similar scams involving, also for considerable sums. "Several tens of millions of euros", said one side High Court. According to our information, to other customary of tax fraud are sights. The Budget Minister, Eric Woerth, immediately held to pay tribute to "the effective action of Bercy services".Communication service noted that "as soon as the existence of such fraud was confirmed, the Government has taken very quickly responsibilities by changing the VAT regime applicable to the transactions in this market, as in force at the beginning of the month of juin2009".
For the Ministry of the Budget, "this initiative to remove the risk of fraud for the future".As "unified at the community level, a specific tax regime will emerge very soon."Nevertheless, the road to find all those responsible for fraud in VAT of the CO2qui cost, according to Europol, at least 5 euros to several European countries including the France is still very long. What is certain is that the fight against this type of scam has aroused the attention of the various actors from other markets of the old Continent in the crosshairs of hackers, those of electricity and gas. Here, they are much less likely to go unnoticed.
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