Central Investigation Bureau (CIB) arrests 4 directors of a fake company that issued 105 fake tax invoices, causing the state to lose more than 17 million baht.
There are 4 suspects: Mr. Achwa, 50 years old; Ms. Kasamon, 62 years old; Mr. Nirut, 39 years old; Mr. Sittichok or Mr. Niran, 48 years old. The circumstances are that the Revenue Department has filed a complaint with the police to consider prosecuting a criminal offense against a company and 4 former directors of the company for ‘jointly issuing tax invoices without the legal right to issue them.’ The incident occurred in March 2014. The company is involved in the construction material sales business. However, the Revenue Department found that the company is a three-and-a-half-story, old commercial building with no business operations. When asked, the neighboring residents stated that the company had canceled the lease of the building at the end of September 2016 and did not know where it had moved to. They could not be contacted.
The Revenue Depa
rtment therefore believes that the said company has issued tax invoices illegally. It is a company that was established without any intention to conduct business and did not submit documents to the Revenue Department for examination. However, the said company has issued tax invoices without the right to do so during the tax month of June 2014 to August 2016 to other business operators.
In addition, the Revenue Department has been notified by various Revenue Offices that there are illegal sales tax invoices issued by the said company to business operators to apply for tax credits (refunds), totaling 105 tax invoices, all of which are false and there was no actual purchase of goods, with a total value of goods of over 16 million baht, calculated as value-added tax (VAT) of over 1 million baht, totaling over 17.9 million baht.
The police issued a summons to contact the four board members to acknowledge the charges, but none of them showed up, leading to the belief that they were likely to flee. The investigato
rs therefore requested permission from the court to issue an arrest warrant. Initially, Mr. Achwa and Ms. Kasamon were arrested. Then, Mr. Nirut and Mr. Sittichok, or Mr. Niran, coordinated to surrender themselves, but all denied all charges and gave consistent testimonies that they did not know the company in any way. However, the third and fourth suspects only stated that in 2014, someone had asked for their national ID cards to use as a representative for selling products in a direct sales format.
Source: Thai News Agency