Irina Socol, CEO and shareholder of SIVECO Romania, was arrested by prosecutors on Tuesday morning, along with another person after prosecutors made several searches yesterday in the tax evasion case of a software sale.
Irina Socol, CEO of the e largest IT companies in the country, was detained for 24 hours after being questioned for several hours.
The two detainees will be brought before court with the proposal for a temporary arrest.
The other suspects in the tax evasion case of software sale will be investigated at large, after most of them have admitted the facts during the hearings on Monday, judicial sources said, according to Mediafax.
During the Monday hearings, witnesses statements were taken after the police and prosecutors raided the offices of several companies, including SIVECO’s, as part of an investigation of 3 million euro tax evasion in software marketing.
"In fact, in order to avoid the payment of taxes to the state budget, representatives of a software producing company would create a criminal circuit consisting of over 50 companies where fictitious transactions were found as having been carried out during 2009 -2013, worth about 10 million euros, " a press release of the Romanian Police reads.
Investigations revealed that the software manufacturer had registered in its accounts fictitious services purchase representing the creation of informatics programs that were not actually rendered, the state budget thus being prejudiced by over three million euros.
According to judicial sources, SIVECO allegedly purchased fictional computer programming services from several "ghost" companies . Several "ghost” companies were involved in the tax evaders chain, one of the alleged ghost company providing services to SIVECO would belong to a Roma citizen in Sinteşti.