Tax Fraud Crackdown: Major Criminal Network Busted in Fez for Fake Invoice Scheme

This network created fictitious companies and issued false invoices and fictitious invoices, thus carrying out fraudulent commercial and financial transactions. These are examined by the competent services of the DGI. These transactions have caused huge losses to the state coffers. It would have been discovered that payments have been made by bank transfers or by checks between companies issuing the false invoices or the fictitious invoices and those who use them in their tax returns, by manipulating the financial statements.

Another finding: a large part of the amount paid is withdrawn on the same day or the next day of the transaction to be returned to the company that issued the invoice. These companies could be subject to a tax audit for the last ten years. In accordance with the 2021 Finance Act, the DGI can transfer files relating to tax fraud and fictitious invoices directly to the competent public prosecutor’s office. In the meantime, its services coordinate their actions with other administrations, in particular the National Social Security Fund (CNSS) and the Customs and Indirect Taxes Administration to identify companies that have disappeared from the DGI’s radar.

Currently, the members of the criminal network are being prosecuted by the justice system on serious charges.