The case of possible payment of envelope wages in beauty salons, in which businesswoman Ieva Plaude-Rēlinger is among the four defendants, could end up in court by the end of May, hopes the prosecutor of the Tax and Customs Prosecutor’s Office Įrts Bērziņš, who is the representative of the state prosecution in this case. The prosecutor believes that the evidence in the case has been collected sufficiently strong and convincing, therefore there should be no delays in the progress of the case. “It will all depend on the defendants, how honest they will be,” comments Bērziņš.
He tells “Delfi Bizness” that the accused persons implemented various schemes, however, he did not specify which ones.
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Plaude-Rölingere has been in business since the 1990s. She created the brand and holding company “Kolonna”, under which beauty salons, perfume shops and several hotels operated, brought such European brands as the British “Debenhams” and the German “Douglas” to the Baltics. During the previous financial crisis, “Kolonna” holding companies changed owners, Plaude-Rölinger herself went through the process of insolvency and bankruptcy. True, in 2012 the magazine “Ir” had investigated that the owners of “Kolonna” had probably not lost control over the business and were hiding offshore. Also AS “Reverta”, which
