Jeep, seized during an operation for tax fraud 11 million BGN, was driven by MP Jeyhan Ibryamov?

Six people bought and sold agricultural products, and one of the detainees withdrew 57 million from various banks in a year

What is the relationship and role of the MP Ceyhan Ibryamov in a scheme that damaged the budget with BGN 11 million from draining VAT and corporate tax?

Two news – one officer about the broken crime group of six that operated from 2021 to August 9. The other, unofficial – for a political umbrella over them, went parallel on Wednesday.

GDBOP and the National Finance Agency reported on the two directions of the scheme at a press conference. The first fuse companies were created, sometimes even for people who are citizens of countries outside the EU. They bought grain and oilseeds, but from unknown producers. So they saved the corporation tax of 10%. This production is subject to special regulation and no VAT is payable. The companies have no ownership of the agricultural land, no equipment, or subsidies. They submitted documents for a turnover of BGN 90 million. Therefore, the GDBOP and the National Revenue Agency believe that the gang has saved BGN 9 million in corporate tax, explained the deputy head of the revenue agency, Evgeni Nankov. Then they sell to real companies, but at a lower price because of the saved taxes.

In the second stage of the scheme, the group tried to cover up the cash flow because they had false documents about the origin of the product. Exchange goods with invoice to real companies. They distributed the product to end users. At the same time, the gang was also trading in fertilizers and involved in transport. It goes through the general procedure and is subject to 20% VAT. Then the real importer of fertilizers, in order to avoid paying the tax, used invoices from other companies at a lower level, where the tax due was not paid. There, the damage to the budget is around BGN 2 million.

The fake owners of the companies – low-income Bulgarians – were paid between BGN 500 and 1,000, explained GDBOP deputy director general Kalin Litov.

“Luxury cars were actually acquired, used by people close to the company and with incomes that do not correspond to their occupations,” the Ministry of the Interior quickly stated during the August 9 operation, on directed by the Sofia City Prosecutor’s Office. During the operation, a luxury car, several seals, powers of attorney, invoices, bills of lading, scale and notes, electronic signatures, laptops were seized.

The news at the press conference was that a luxury car had been taken, at the same time as the unofficial release of photos of the Jeep seizure, It happened with the permission of Sofia City Court. The make and color of the car is the same as the owner Ceyhan Ibryamov he was filmed by journalists some time ago entering the sea shed Ahmed Dogan near Rosenets. Websites circulated the photo of the seized jeep, claiming it was a car driven by a politician.

However, his name was not mentioned at the briefing of the GDBOP and the National Narcotics Agency. And he is not among those arrested, who are three, and the other three in the group have been released on bail and bond.

The independents from DPS (Dogan) promised to comment on the matter on Thursday. This happens a week after the Anti-Corruption Commission’s action against the businessman Rumen Gaitanski-Wolf, who is a friend and former partner of the honorable chairman of the party. To this day, the people of Dogan have no idea about the million loan that was not returned from BBR to Valka, part of which was used to pay the debts of the Varna TPP. A few days ago, Dogan officially left this company.

Ibryamov’s wife Birshen is Dogan’s longtime secretary and remained loyal to him after the war between Delyan Peevski and what is called “deribes” about the honorable chairman.

The National Revenue Agency has taken measures, control proceedings are being carried out, facts and circumstances are being clarified. Assets and accounts are also seized to recover the money.

The process itself is relatively long, as there is a legal appeal and control. The important thing is that measures were taken and that the state gets what it has, Nankov said.

To launch the money, the gang also bought apartments, a production plant, a total cooperation outside Sofia, Villas. It was in the cooperative that Ibryamov was found to be living.

One of the detained men was found to have withdrawn BGN 57 million from various banks in just one and a half years. The money reached the companies’ accounts in the morning, and was withdrawn the same evening. The minimum stock allocation was BGN 300.

The man who withdrew the money was remanded in custody by the Sofia Court of Appeal on Tuesday. There are two others in the cell with him. However, the leader of the group is not among them. It is in general. “That’s what the court decided,” Litov said, and he did not specify whether the accused is one of the two released on bail, or is free on bond. (24 cups)