US Edition€69 Million Alcohol Tax Fraud Dismantled Across Spain
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The Central Operating Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard and the National Bureau of Fraud Investigation (ONIF, under the Tax Agency) have broken up a criminal scheme specializing in the massive fraud of this tax on the sale of alcoholic beverages with the arrest of eight of its alleged members, according to the Interior and Finance Ministries this Thursday. Continue reading
€69 Million Alcohol Tax Fraud Dismantled across Spain
July 10, 2025 – In a joint operation named “Operation Gallagher”, the Spanish Civil Guard and the Tax Agency, under the direction of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO), have dismantled a major criminal organization responsible for a massive €69 million VAT fraud in the alcoholic beverages sector between 2018 and 2024. Eight members of the organization have been arrested following 19 coordinated raids across Madrid, Barcelona, La Coru…
The businessman based in Santiago J.E.P.S., in whose home the Algalia of Abaixo rúa carried out the UCO a registration this Tuesday, is one of the eight detainees in the framework of a macrooperation carried out by the UCO and the Tax Agency, led by the European Public Prosecutor's Office, in which a criminal organization responsible for the fraud of about 69 million euros in the alcohol sector between 2018 and 2024 has been dismantled.
There are seven other persons in detention and all of them have been placed at the disposal of the European Public Prosecutor ' s Office ...
The Civil Guard and the Tax Agency, in an operation led by the European Public Prosecutor's Office, have broken up an important criminal organization specializing in the massive fraud of about 69 million in the alcoholic beverage sector, responsible for having evaded the payment of VAT from 2018 to 2024 corresponding to the commercial transactions carried out.Through a joint communiqué, the three entities that have taken part in the so-called 'O…
At the top of the organization were three Spaniards who had a network of testaferros
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