Asian criminal groups have laundered as much as PLN 2.6bn into Poland over the past year, according to the daily Puls Biznesu. These crime rings have been smuggling in and selling clothing and home electronic appliances and not paying paying any taxes, the newspaper reports. The profits were instead transferred outside the country.
“At the moment, the precise amount of the losses can not be given. A tax audit is currently underway,” said Zbigniew Jaskólski from the prosecutor’s office in Warsaw. So far, eight people have been charged, three of whom are citizens of Vietnam.
