Das Europäische Amt für Betrugsbekämpfung (OLAF) hat Griechenland eine Geldstrafe von 200 Mio. € aufgebrummt, weil es nichts gegen Chinas systematischen Zollbetrug im Hafen von Piräus unternimmt. China flutet ab Piräus den europäischen Markt mit unverzollten Billigprodukten (vor allem billige Kleidung und Schuhe).
Chinas "neue Seidenstraße"-Projekt (schneller Warentransport von China nach Europa auf dem Schienenwege), in das der von China gekaufte Hafen von Piräus strategisch eingebunden ist, kritisiert Zerohedge als "eine einzige große Steuerbetrugs-Aktions".
OLAF hat laut Politico (unten) festgestellt, dass China mit diesem Netzwerk seit 2015 Steuern in Höhe von 2,5 Mrd. Euro gespart hat. Darin ist die hinterzogene Mehrwertsteuer noch gar nicht enthalten.
While president Trump is cracking down on Chinese technology theft "transfer" in the US, ... it has emerged that China's Belt and Road initiative may be nothing more than one giant, global tax fraud/trade laundering operation.
Take Greece for example, where the European Union’s Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) just issued a fine of more than 200 million euros to Greece for failing to stop a wide-scale tax fraud by Chinese criminal gangs importing ultra-cheap goods through the country’s largest port of Piraeus, Politico reported on Monday...
Politico:
EU anti-fraud investigators are demanding that Greek customs pay more than €200 million for failing to act against a major Chinese fraud network dumping ultra-cheap clothing and footwear in Europe.An investigation by the EU’s anti-fraud office, OLAF, focused on the Chinese-owned Piraeus port in Athens — part of Beijing's huge Belt and Road infrastructure project. Customs officials there failed to stop a sophisticated network of cross-border criminals fraudulently avoiding import duties and value-added tax on large amounts of footwear and clothing items such as T-shirts and trousers, investigators told POLITICO. (Mich würde nicht wundern, wenn die Griechen für diese Unterlassung die Hand aufhalten, A.L.)
The findings, conveyed to the European Commission at the end of December, are the latest chapter in a campaign by OLAF to crack down on a criminal network that has avoided paying at least €2.5 billion in customs duties alone in six counties since 2015. Financial losses in VAT payments, which would be due to both national budgets and the EU budget, are of an even greater amount, investigators say.
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