Eurojust assists authorities in Germany, Croatia, Czechia, and Italy in combating a long-term fraud scheme involving illegal or undeclared labor and tax evasion, ongoing since 2019

The perpetrators set up three different building companies, mainly operating in and around the city of Münster in Germany, which did not pay taxes or social levies on the wages of their employees. To mask this fraud, a string of so-called service companies were set up in the Czechia, which supplied fake invoices. One of the suspects also functioned as alleged manager or administrator of some of the enterprises, to give the fraud an official front…