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Two men were arrested in Eindhoven in mid-October on suspicion of tax fraud, in a case in which the Dutch Tax Administration is estimated to have lost around 14 million euros, Hart van Nederland reports. The two men, aged 54 and 37, were taken into custody at a business premises in Eindhoven. The Fiscal Information and Investigation Service (FIOD) also searched a residence in Hilvarenbeek and five business locations in Eindhoven, Dongen, Rosmalen, Amsterdam, and Tilburg. Investigators recovered administrative records, a car, and expensive electronic equipment. A 70-year-old man was also detained in Poland, and authorities conducted searches in Belgium, FIOD said Friday. FIOD suspects the operation involved a “fraud chain” spanning multiple companies in the Netherlands and other EU countries, moving goods and money to carry out value-added tax (VAT) fraud.
