DOSSIER 02 / 12 REPORTS
Customs, VAT & sanctions
Cross-border trade, missing-trader structures and the movement of taxable goods.
LINE OF INQUIRY
Where do trade flows create opportunities for tax and customs fraud?
REPORT
United Kingdom · France · Spain · Portugal
R71UK court freezes about £50 million in unexplained-wealth investigation
Slovakia · European Union
R50EPPO investigates alleged customs and VAT losses exceeding €234 million in Slovakia
Germany · Austria · Poland · Spain · Switzerland · Cuba
R08Money in the Account, No Payments: How a Sanctions Chain Locked Cohiba’s European Route
Germany
R09Damaged US cars at the centre of Germany’s €90 million fraud case
Czechia, Germany, Lithuania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Slovakia
R10AirPods trade used in alleged €20 million VAT carousel
Italy
R11Milan clothing imports examined in €33.4 million VAT probe
Brazil, Germany, Belgium
R12Extra invoices raise questions over collagen imports’ customs value
Poland
R13Russian plywood allegedly entered Poland under Kazakh origin declarations
Greece, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czechia
R14Greek electronics VAT probe reaches property and digital assets
Italy
R15Italian fuel warehouse suspected of selling 188 million litres without paying tax
Greece
R16Piraeus customs case examines how imports passed inspections
Italy, France, Poland, Switzerland, UK