Building a highway to crime from the Middle East into Europe July 23 2014 By Romana Puiuleț, Daniel Bojin and Cristi Ciupercă On the morning of June 17, 2013, a judge in the Ilfov County Courthouse just outside of Bucharest began trying the case of a Swedish citizen of Iranian origin. AB, who has asked to remain anonymous, was to be tried in absentia on charges of evading €16 million (US$20.8 million) in taxes. The Romanian prosecutors say that two of his commercial companies imported vegetables from Turkey into Romania without paying taxes owed to the Romanian government. On paper, AB is the owner of no fewer than 80 Romanian companies and many of these have huge debts to the Romanian state in unpaid taxes. Yet AB had never imported vegetables, never set up companies and never evaded taxes. In fact, he had never been to Romania. However, his identity had been used by fraudsters to commit crimes without his knowledge. He is not alone. Read more
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