An extensive and fully organised circuit of LPG smuggling has been broken up by auditors from DEOS, the Independent Public Revenue Authority.
The action was coordinated with guidance and monitoring from the Central Operations Room of the DEOS in Athens.
Specifically, 28 teamswith more than 100 auditors,assisted by 4 booth operators in charge and 4 operational analysts, simultaneously entered the premises of targeted businesses in 14 cities across the country:Thessaloniki, Ioannina, Rhodes, Trikala, Karditsa, Kastoria, Athens, Katerini, Nafplio, Aspropyrgos, Santorini, Agrinio, Rethymno and Kalamata.
In the customs and tax control that they conducted, they investigated the possible commission of financial crimes. As a result of the controls, two natural persons were brought before the public prosecutor, 15 tankers were seized and bonded, as well as 293.000 litres of LPG.
In addition, an outdoor place of illegal storage of LPG was identified, as well as another place where it was found that there was hidden storage of fuel. As announced by the AADE, the parties involved will be subject to the prescribed administrative and criminal sanctions, while the control is extended to the customers of these businesses, to ascertain the legal use of LPG.
