European police have arrested 18 people suspected of involvement in a continent-wide tax evasion scheme that swindled hundreds of millions of dollars.
The clampdown targeted a VAT fraud gang "responsible for defrauding EU citizens of approximately €320m [$350 million]", Eurojust and Europol said in a combined statement in The Hague on Thursday.
The syndicate "used a sophisticated infrastructure including buffer companies ... to facilitate money laundering and crime-related money transfers spread over various members states and a number of third states".
Detectives in Austria, Belgium, Great Britain, Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Spain and Sweden carried out searches in a major crackdown on the crime syndicate on Wednesday.
In total, police conducted 38 searches and seized more than $697,000. The operation involved more than 200 officers.
Source: Aje
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