The company of the Czech owner got into trouble, it had operated reliably for years before. When the three Polish manufacturers did not get paid for the goods, they turned to the police.
“He took furniture of various kinds from them for almost 25 million crowns without paying for it,” said police spokeswoman Iveta Kopecká.
The police found out that the company’s manager continued to do business and take goods, even though he knew that the company was in bad shape economically and would not be able to pay.
“In addition, he submitted forged payment documents to his suppliers in order to lure the goods from them in a fraudulent manner. He then sold the purchased and unpaid furniture under the banner of another company, in which he also acted as an executive. In order to make it more difficult to reveal his activities, he had the furniture transported from the original warehouses to another location and became unavailable to his surroundings and business partners,” Kopecká described.
Photo: Police of the Czech Republic
Detained furniture in the Pardubice region
In recent days, criminal investigators in cooperation with the intervention unit detained him and accused him of a particularly serious crime of fraud. The police do not want to say exactly where they secured the goods because of the ongoing investigation. The accused will wait for the court’s verdict in the remand prison.
“Next to him, a legal entity is also being prosecuted for the criminal offense of legalizing proceeds from criminal activity. It is a company through which the businessman concealed the origin of fraudulently lured furniture,” the police spokeswoman specified.
The police managed to find out the place where the furniture was hidden and secured it. The whole event was extremely extensive. It lasted four days and involved handling almost nine thousand pieces of furniture worth several tens of millions of crowns. In addition to evidence in the form of documents and other data, other property worth around 9 million crowns was secured.
“The fact that more than 80 policemen and 30 employees of the Customs Administration took part in it in a few days speaks for the difficulty of the event. The main task of the policemen will now be to settle the seized property as quickly as possible and hand over the furniture to the victims,” concluded Kopecká.
