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Lawyer Caught in Attempted Fraud at National Tax Service

The National Tax Service (SIN) caught a lawyer in free practice red-handed, who intended to illegally benefit a taxpayer with the lifting of a car mortgage, for which she would have presented forged documentation in the Vehicle Registration Division of the Directorate. traffic. The woman is under preventive detention in Palmasola prison by order of a judge.

“The case dates back to Thursday, October 19, when at the request of that police office, Taxes verified, through the Integrated Tax Administration System (SIAT Online), the authenticity of the documentation presented by the legal professional Mayra AGJ, corresponding to a ‘Certificate of Tax Debt’ and ‘Mortgage Release Instruction’ of a motor vehicle seized by the SIN for tax debts, which amount to more than three million bolivianos,” states an institutional report.

The documentation presented by Mayra AGJ was adulterated with information that belonged to another taxpayer, free of debt to the treasury; The documentation issued by the tax administration has security features that allow its authenticity to be identified.

Once the technical verification was done, the SIN, through the Santa Cruz I District Management, filed a complaint on Thursday the 19th with the corresponding authorities against the lawyer for Material Falsehood and Use of a Falsified Instrument, crimes classified and punished in articles 198 and 203 of the Penal Code.

In the precautionary hearing, held last Friday, the Criminal Investigation Judge No. 1 of the Capital, Patricia Murillo, determined the preventive detention of Mayra AGJ for 90 days in the Palmasola Prison.

Likewise, the investigation is being expanded against the legal representative of the taxpayer, who attempted, by said criminal means, to benefit from the lifting of the mortgage without paying the tax debt.

“This year, the SIN consolidated the use of SIAT Online to make it easier for taxpayers to comply with their tax duties. In addition, it allows the exchange of information over the Internet, both at the national level within the Tax Administration itself, and with other state institutions; thus avoiding cloning, falsification or misuse of the documentation that enters the SIN,” the report indicates.

2023-10-28 14:41:36
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