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Tuesday, December 1, 1992
Volume:
8
Issue:
10
Pg. 480
Abstract:
The Swedish Customs Crimes Police is currently investigating Estonian, Finnish and Russian metal-smuggling gangs with apparently good business contacts in Sweden. Organized metal smuggling and extensive value-added tax fraud has become a serious problem. At 50 million kroner [SKr] in taxes and customs have not been paid. The tactic of the gangs is to understate the dutiable value for metal goods at the Stockholm free port. In one case, a container with dutiable value of SKr 1.5 million was declared to be valued at SKr27,000…[more]