Prosecutors started a criminal case over tax evasion of tens of thousands of lei against a company managing a number of filling stations in the Autonomous Territorial Unit of Gagauzia, IPN reports.

According to the Prosecutor General’s Office, the company sold fuel for cash without indicating the transactions in the bookkeeping documents.

The prosecutors and officers of the Ministry of the Interior established that the company sold fuel products without documents of origin and without using cash registers and used a mechanism enabling modifying, blocking or annulling the figures about sales.

As a result of searches at nine filling stations, located in the districts of Ceadir-Lunga, Comrat, Cantemir and Basarabeasca, it was determined that an amount of fuel intended for sale was missing.

Under the Penal Code, tax evasion is punished with a fine of 40,000 to 60,000 lei or up to three years in jail, in both of the cases with a ban on holding particular posts or carrying out particular activities for a period of one to five years.