Economic crime report 2004 - Ekobrottsmyndigheten

Table 19b
Seizures of tobacco products, 1999–2003
Tobacco 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003
Seizures 5 934 5 325 3 491 2 987 2 798
Value 8 44 380 000 62 526 000 66 738 000 39 302 000 108 291 000
Average value 7 479 11 742 19 117 13 158 38 703
Quantity
Cigarettes (millions) 32 45 48 27 74
Pipe and rolling
tobacco (kg) 389 712 817 319 157
Cigarillos and
the like No info No info No info 403 850
Higher import quotas may have affected the number and value of the
seizures
4.5 NATIONWIDE INTERAGENCY PROJECTS
4.5.1 Carousel 2000
In April 1999, SKV appointed a task force to work with EBM on analyzing
and investigating carousel fraud, as well as evaluating and proposing
improvements to SKV’s supervisory activities in the area. At the
same time, EBM formed a project team with the sole task of investigating
mobile phone and computer component issues. The project released a
report of its work and findings on 8 February 2001.
Investigations of carousel fraud under the project’s auspices were successful.
The interagency cooperation model proved to be productive. The
results that were achieved would have been impossible without such collaboration.
The agencies involved were EBM, FiPo, KFM, SKV and Customs.
The VAT evasion in question totalled an estimated SEK 1.5 billion. Decisions
were made to attach approximately SEK 140 million, while SEK
52 million in deduction claims for input VAT was denied. Given that
changes may occur during additional investigations and judicial reviews,
such figures are not set in stone.
8.
Statistics were kept for cigarettes only.
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