Bulgaria Foils Major VAT Fraud
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Politics: 1 October 2004, Friday. Bulgaria's police have busted an organized crime group dealing with financial frauds.
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The Interfax news agency quoted a source as saying that the sum was contained in an audit that the tax authorities presented to Yukos today.
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Russian authorities on Wednesday claimed $158m in back taxes from VimpelCom, the country&#39;s second-largest mobile phone company, raising fears of spreading political interference in private business.
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Bulgaria&#39;s Socialist Prime Minister Sergey Stanishev vowed Friday to maintain financial stability in the country despite record-high inflation in July and an ever-widening current account gap.
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Mobile phones and cameras will be banned from polling booths in Bulgaria's local elections on Sunday following reports of vote-buying scams.
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Politics: 7 October 2004, Thursday. A Bulgarian court has ruled for a German man to be extradited over fraud indictments.
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Could be open season for fraudsters Gordon Brown has been warned that plans to simplify VAT rules will severely impair the European Union's ongoing battle against tax fraud.â¦
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Business & money: A new and virulent form of fraud threatens to defeat governments' efforts to combat it and pushing annual tax losses up by billions of euros
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Alarm spread through the investment community in Russia as authorities slapped a back tax bill of almost 160 million dollars (121 million euros) on the number two mobile phone operator Vimpelcom, in what is widely seen as a government-linked campaign against the firm.
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Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich cheated the European taxpayer out of millions, a major bank is set to claim.
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Rip, mix, re-rip, type The European Union's Bulgarian "commissioner for consumers", Meglena Kuneva, has hit out at the Balkanised world of digital music.â¦
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The governmentâs criminal case against questionable tax shelters took a major step forward today when one defendant, David Amir Makov, an investment adviser, entered a guilty plea.
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Politics: 13 December 2004, Monday. Bulgarian lawmakers have suggested to amend the legal text banning the use of special surveillance devices, including hidden cameras and microphones, as early as in the ...
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Olaf accused of irregularities and conflicts of interest The EU's anti-fraud chief is to be brought before the European Parliament over allegations of conflicts of interest and operational irregularities at Olaf.â¦
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France on Friday extradited to Bulgaria Vasil Kachikov, a Bulgarian national suspected of complicity in the assassination of one of his country's underworld bosses in Amsterdam about a year ago.
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Top news: 28 September 2004, Tuesday. Envoys of Europe's big business recommended Tuesday for Bulgaria to speed up its reforms en route to European Union membership.
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Lifestyle: 26 December 2004, Sunday. The sum of BGN 840,000 was collected in The Bulgarian Christmas charity event organized for the second time in Bulgaria.