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Suspected tax fraud prosecuted in east China

A former farmer from south China'sGuangdong province has been charged with issuing 420 million yuan (49.4 million US dollars) worth of fake value-added tax invoices.


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A former farmer from south China'sGuangdong province has been charged with issuing 420 million yuan (49.4 million US dollars) worth of fake value-added tax invoices.

The procuratorate of Lianyungang, a coastal city of east China's Jiangsu province, has announced that it is to prosecute Zhou Qinghua for providing fraudulent documents which resulted in the evasion of 60 million yuan (7.2 million dollars) in taxes.

Prosecutors allege that Zhou had provided fake invoices to about 100 companies throughout the country since 1994.

Zhou, once a farmer in Shantou, is accused of registering a firm in his hometown and using it as a cover.

The case was first exposed when police in Lianyungang looked into a local case of tax evasion in 1998, involving Zhu Jinrong, allegedly a buyer of Zhou's fake invoices. The former company chairman in Lianyungang was sentenced to death with two years suspension in 2000.

In 2001, police in Lianyungang were authorized by the Ministry of Public Security to conduct a nationwide investigation which lead to the discovery of 240 million yuan (28.9 million dollars) worth of fake invoices. Police also found over 100 million yuan (12 million US dollars) worth of fake invoices sold to a company inWuhan, capital of central China's Hubei province.

Sources said all those involved had been prosecuted.


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