The 32-year-old woman was married for an Italian, he now has a baby
from an international driver
She was detained in October together with Germans and mobsters from
Ndrangheta for stealing 13m euros VAT on trade in luxury cars
32-year-old Sofka Bozhilova from Peshtera is the Bulgarian woman arrested in the first operation of the European Prosecutor’s Office, 24 Chasa has learned.
It took place on October 19 in Germany, Italy and Bulgaria for VAT theft in car sales. Members of the Calabrian Ndrangheta are involved, according to the office of the German police, which is leading the investigation.
Sofka Bozhilova also has an Italian connection, a 24 Chasa check showed. A few years ago, she married Italian Gabriele Bignotti.
In 2014, the company Aurora Service was registered in her name, which is engaged in trade in cars and spare parts. In 2015, she transferred it to her ex-husband. Then he registered a new company for trade in cars and transport, but both companies have no official activity.
Except with business Sofka Bozhilova
also deals with politics
In 2011, he was a candidate for municipal councilor in his hometown of the unelected 11th place in the MRF list, according to data from the CEC. In 2014, he was one of the party’s 212 registered advocates for early parliamentary elections. In 2017, when she was still married to the Italian Bignoti, Sofka was a member of a sectional election commission in the city.
During the operation, ordered by the European Prosecutor’s Office, Bozhilova’s address in Peshtera was searched and she was taken into custody, where the Pazardzhik District Court left her permanently. The court will then decide again whether to extradite her to Germany on charges of involvement in a criminal group for tax crimes. The measure was also confirmed by the Court of Appeal in Plovdiv.
“I am innocent. I want to child care you are
as always I did it
I am with him every 24 hours, because there is no one else to help me, “Sofka said in court, revealing the minutes of the hearing.
The young woman from Peshtera has a child of one year and 3 months. The man next to her is an international driver. According to her, he returns home for a day or two and sets off again. However, the court countered that she had relatives who could take care of the child, and left her in custody because she could go into hiding.
According to Sofka’s lawyer, the European Arrest Warrant, which arrived in Bulgaria, states only that she was convicted of the crime and did not have to remain in custody until the extradition. Before that, no one had looked for her on any occasion.
The order for Sofka is under arrest signed by
European delegated prosecutor c Germany
and was approved by the court in Munich.
Sofka Bozhilova is under investigation by the European Prosecutor’s Office on the first signal sent to the institution in June. It is about trading in luxury cars and damaging the EU budget. A total of 46 addresses were searched during the operation on October 18. 28 of them are in Italy, 17 in Germany and Bozhilova’s in Peshtera.
Proven abuses amount to 13m euros.
The criminal group operated in the German city of Eichstadt and in Milan. Its members bought luxury cars from German car dealerships. The sale took place with an imaginary Italian dealer. It was announced that the cars would be exported to Italy, so the transaction was exempt from VAT in Germany.
Purchases were made through a fictitious company in Germany. The private buyer from Milan falsified the sale of the original dealer, who then sold the cars to other Italian car dealers or individuals at much lower prices.
They are for the scheme used hollow chain
companies in EU countries
for resale of cars.
According to investigators, false sales tax returns were filed and subsequently refunded.
By changing the market price of cars, the group made huge profits. Some of the funds have been transferred abroad. The transfers cost more than 70,000 euros each.
Three of the ten arrested Italians have ties to the mafia organization Ndrangheta, the European Prosecutor’s Office and the police in Germany announced the day after the arrests. In addition to the car investigation, four more people were arrested for drug trafficking.
7 kg of marijuana and hashish were seized. The searches gathered a lot of evidence and several luxury cars. The operation was led by the European Delegated Prosecutor in Germany, who also issued the arrest warrant for Sofka Bozhilova.
The second operation of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office is from November 4 in the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Romania, when a scheme for VAT theft of 23 million euros was also broken.
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