Chinanews.com, Guangzhou, November 29 (Fang Weibin, Yang Qiuming, Zhang Yitao) The Guangzhou police reported on the 29th that Haizhu Police, in conjunction with the Third Inspection Bureau of the Guangzhou Taxation Bureau, had destroyed a drug manufacturer, agent, "medical representative" and individual The huge criminal industry chain of hospitals and pharmacies who falsely issued special value-added tax invoices for the pharmaceutical industry has captured 41 criminal suspects headed by Lai (male, 39 years old), and initially found that the amount involved reached 1.5 billion yuan (RMB, below) with).
The police handling the case launched arrest operations in many places and arrested a total of 41 suspects.
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At the beginning of this year, the Haizhu police discovered a number of pharmaceutical agency companies such as Guangdong Heng X Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. and Guangdong Jin X Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., suspected of evading state taxes and making illegal profits by falsely issuing special VAT invoices.
The task force organized police forces in multiple routes to Anhui, Zhejiang, Hunan, Hainan and other provinces. It took several months to travel to dozens of cities and towns and travel for tens of thousands of kilometers, and conducted investigations into dozens of relevant pharmaceutical manufacturers one by one.
Through investigations, the police also discovered a special group-"medical representatives" that wandered between these pharmaceutical agencies and hospitals and pharmacies.
They are similar to intermediaries, weaving a network of purchasers from individual hospitals and pharmacies.
They cooperated with pharmaceutical agency companies to purchase drugs from regular manufacturers in the name of agency companies, and then through "shell company" pharmaceutical companies to create false transactions, falsify transfer records, issue value-added tax invoices, and push up drug prices by 2-3 After doubling or even higher, they were sold to hospitals and pharmacies at high prices.
On November 5, the task force, with the cooperation of relevant departments of the Guangzhou Public Security Bureau, jointly launched a cross-provincial network collection operation with the taxation department.
The arrested police officers went to Guangdong, Guangxi, Anhui and other places to collect the Internet simultaneously. They arrested 41 criminal suspects headed by Lai, and seized special value-added tax invoices, bank cards, ID cards, online banking USB shields, and company information on the spot. A large number of criminal tools such as ledgers.
The police handling the case seized a batch of crime tools such as mobile phones and bank cards.
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After interrogation, the task force found that, in order to fill the gaps in special value-added tax invoices caused by "passed invoices", 5 pharmaceutical agency companies including Heng X Company paid a handling fee of 5%-10% of the face value to illegally purchase from upstream ticket vendors Approximately 13,000 special value-added tax invoices were issued by “shell companies” in Guangdong, Hunan, Anhui, Hainan, Zhejiang, etc., involving a tax amount of about 220 million yuan and a total value of about 1.5 billion yuan.
At present, Haizhu police have criminally detained Lai and other suspects in accordance with the law.
The case is under further investigation.
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