Journalistic Investigations Center

Every year the national budget of Moldova is prejudiced of billions of lei due to the convoluted schemes used by the criminal networks that use delinquent companies as camouflage, the so-called phantom companies. The budget defrauding schemes are most of the times with the value added tax (VAT) which is either not paid to the state from the incomes of businesses or is refunded from the public budget based on fake invoices. Experts say that VAT-related frauds each year exceed the amount of a national budget of Moldova.  
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