Money was deliberately diverted from Mamut to other Unicorn companies, the investigation showed. Kovář – Novinky also invoiced him

According to the company Plus4U from the Unicorn group, so-called forensic report it does not contain new fundamental results and usually only repeats already known and published facts or half-truths. “Its findings are conjecture and speculation, and despite the efforts of its creators, it does not confirm any illegal activities by Unicorn group companies. Plus4U believes that this report is a deliberately fabricated document prepared in the interest of Mammoth’s main creditors, which aims to link the fraudulent activities of businessman Břetislav Janoušek to him the Unicorn group,” said Plus4U media representative Aneta Havlová.

In the report, the investigators describe Mammoth’s intra-group relationship with other Unicorn group companies, the e-shop’s financial and tax transactions and invoice background, which companies from the Unicorn group are booked with delays towards the e. – shop even after the initiation of bankruptcy proceedings. According to Havel, Mammoth is not part of the Unicorn group, so Mammoth’s business is not connected to this group’s business.

The company Mammoth, which ran the electronic e-store Mamut.cz, owes its creditors nearly seven billion crowns, according to registered claims, after 107,000 Apple iPhone mobile phones and more than 300,000 piece of equipment for these tools to disappear from the store. The largest creditors are the operator T-Mobile and J&T Leasing Company. But Mammoth calls a large portion of the claims questionable because the phone chargers associated with them were supposed to be fake.

According to the forensic report, Mammoth could only be a special purpose company inserted into the business relationship between the main suppliers of J&T Leasing Company and T-Mobile and the main customers of SBJ Trade and a business JAE Břetislav Janoušek. The report described the business model as a fraudulent scheme that may have been in place for several years before bankruptcy proceedings opened. The auditors also said that the companies controlled by Plus4U business director Janousek should have accounted for up to 45 percent of the total taxable performance of the Unicorn group.

The investigators discovered that Vladimír Kovář, the owner of Unicorn, also sent an invoice to the e-shop. They were allegedly invoices for consulting services in the amount of one percent of sales. Auditors identified them as a risk because of the complexity of determining whether they were considered. The investigators also pointed out that Kovář’s invoice copied the company’s sales development. In addition, the forensic report analyzed other invoices that it identifies as potentially fraudulent. Among them, for example, are invoices for Kovář’s services for the entire year 2022. Invoices for more than 15 million should be posted retroactively and all at the same time.

Another of the suspicious transactions is the transfer from the e-store to Plus4U for more than 15 million crowns. According to the accounting records, it should have been dividends for the period from 2021 to August 2022, but it was not booked until the end of March 2023. According to the forensic report , it could be a money transfer law. The report also mentions postbacks for other invoices, both before and after the start of a breach.

The investigators also dealt with suspicious withdrawals and deposits of hundreds of millions of crowns in cash. According to the report, money could be withdrawn through companies from the Unicorn group, which they described as fake invoice boxes that did not provide any performance. The companies had only one or two employees and were unable to provide services in the range of tens to hundreds of millions of crowns, the investigators wrote. Since 2021, the majority of payments have not gone through the FairPay payment service of the company Plus4U Fair Pay bank from the Unicorn group, which, according to the investigators, allowed possible accounting falsification and made more simple. According to the forensic report, the clarification of the case is also complicated by data deleted from the cloud storage company Plus4U Net.