The scheme reached hundreds of thousands of euros earned when hiring cleaning services, all through a “simulated billing circuit”.
Julio Vilas Boas He was elected in April this year to hold a financial audit position for the PSD district in Lisbon. Now, it faces a process of tax fraud and criminal association.
The scheme will injured the State by more than 11.6 million eurosthrough “undue ICMS deductions”, says .
The crime will have involved cleaning contracts worth millions of euros with public entities, including the Air Force, the Navy, Social Security and several universities and polytechnic institutes.
A NCC Facility Services, led by Júlio Vilas Boas and Joaquim Dias, his partner, was a cleaning company that carried out 299 contracts with State entities for a total value of almost 22.5 million euros.
In 2013, a complaint made to the Attorney General’s Office triggered an investigation — the values that NCC presented when applying for public tenders were much lower than those in the competition, which generated suspicions of “tax avoidance”.
The scheme involved the “fictitious acquisition” of workers and “allowed unduly deduct the VAT contained in these invoices and also reduce the value of taxable profit in each year and, consequently, the value of IRPJ to be delivered to the State”.
The company was then able to “present lower budgets than all the competition” and “could even charge values lower than the designated cost price, since it was able to offset losses and capitalize, into profit, undue VAT deductionsresulting from the scheme”.
Result: hundreds of thousands of euros earned when hiring cleaning services, all through a “simulated billing circuit“.
The lawsuit also made six more defendants, including Orlando Carvalhocompany accountant and judicial administrator.
Seundo describes the Public Ministry’s accusation, cited by CNN, “after the release of all NCC invoices, Orlando Carvalho communicated to the defendant Carlos Fernandes the VAT amounts to be paid, and he, in turn, spoke to the defendant Joaquim Dias, who established a value to be invoiced” for four shell companies, which the entrepreneurs ended up creating, “to reduce the amount of tax payable by NCC”.
Still, even after the accusation was filed against Orlando Carvalho and the other defendants, the judicial administrator did not fail to continue to be appointed to manage at least twenty private and collective insolvencies.
The Federal Revenue report, to which CNN had access, also states that 21 vehicles Renault, Opel, Peugeot, Ford and Citroen were “almost all sold at a unit price of 500 euros“, which “constitutes an exaggeratedly low price for functional vehicles”.
These vehicles passed from NCC “at symbolic prices” to another cleaning company, REILIMPA, which then sold them “to third parties”.
