When crime doesn’t pay: VAT fraudsters behind bars for 25 years
“The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall” (Denis Healey) In a strong warning to would-be tax fraudsters, the High Court has sentenced three company directors to effective sentences of 25 years’ imprisonment each. The three were convicted of fraud, forgery, uttering and money laundering involving R216m in […]