EPPO traces fraudulent Chinese imports to France via Port of Athens

According to the investigation, a criminal organisation, mainly based in the Paris area, in the Seine Saint-Denis district, imported goods from 2020 to 2023 through at least six French companies, believed to act as ‘missing traders’, which would vanish without fulfilling their tax obligations. It is understood that the criminal group undervalued the imported goods in order to illicitly reduce the duties due to the French customs authorities…