This is how clothing and shoe companies transferred money under the guise of importing! – Al-Shorouk Online

“Al-Shawala” to reduce bills and take advantage of the officially granted import license
Tax evasion and forgery of commercial documents and wholesale facilities in ports

In conjunction with the strict measures taken by the President of the Republic, Abdelmadjid Tebboune, in his recent meeting with the Prime Minister and officials of the trade and financial sectors against those making false statements that aim to drain the public treasury and then strike the infrastructure of the economy, the Economic and Financial Criminal Court in Sidi M’hamed, on September 16, opened a heavy corruption file, related to suspicious commercial and financial operations of the owner of companies importing clothing from China and Turkey, who transferred huge sums of money to… Laundering it abroad, through tax evasion and adopting methods that violate the laws in collusion with other parties.
The matter concerns a businessman, the owner of 6 companies active in the field of importing clothing from Turkey and China, who is detained in pretrial detention in the penal institution in Qalaia, on suspicion of practicing illegal commercial activities, by resorting to fraudulent methods, which caused great damage to the public treasury and the national economy in general.
In exclusive details at Al-Shorouk’s disposal, 33 defendants are being pursued in the current case, as they will appear before the third branch of the police station, Wednesday, September 16, on heavy charges ranging from tax fraud by resorting to fraudulent acts, forgery of commercial documents, in addition to the misdemeanor of money laundering, and participation in forging commercial documents.

“Al-Shawala” for manipulating import invoices and tax evasion
The facts of the case file were based on information received by the interests of the Central Task Force for Combating Economic and Financial Crimes, stating that there is a company specializing in importing clothes and shoes for resale, which carries out its activity in suspicious and illegal ways, by manipulating import invoices from China and Turkey, reducing the true value of these invoices for the sake of tax evasion, exploiting an import license more than once, contrary to the true value declared in the invoice obtained from the “ALGEX” agency previously. This is related to the company called “SARL REMONTADA RB.” Its headquarters are in the municipality of Beni Mrad, Blida Province.
Information indicates that the same company is active at times between the ports of Oran and Mostaganem, and at other times through the ports of “Djen Djen” and Annaba. The operators of the company’s commercial registry also practice the activity of shipping goods, or the so-called “chaoala”, by reducing bills in order to exploit the import license granted by “Algex” previously, more than once. This is due to the difficulty of obtaining import licenses. Moreover, it is active at the level of the country’s western ports, due to the facilities provided by it. You receive it from some agents in the customs services regarding manipulation of the value of invoices.
Based on the information received, it was decided to expand the investigations regarding the violations and manipulations carried out by this company. The beginning of the investigations was to write to the interests of the National Center for Commercial Registry in order to provide the investigating body with all the information, in addition to providing it with a copy of the basic files, a copy of the commercial records registered in the name of each of the so-called “RB” and the so-called “T.M” and the company called “SARL REMONTADA RB”, so that it turned out that the first accused, “RB”, is the manager of the “Magnifico” company. For Export and Import, it carries out the activity of importing shoes.
At the same time, the investigating authorities wrote to the interests of the Bank of Algeria, with the intention of attaching to them all the available information about all bank loans granted for money transfer licenses abroad, copies of the reports of inspection of exchange violations, as well as all the information available about the financial amounts transferred to and from abroad in the name of each of the natural and legal persons mentioned in the case file.
The Bank of Algeria’s response was that the financial sums indicated in the response of the Bank of Algeria’s interests regarding bank localization operations registered in the name of the company “SARL REMONTADA RB”, were made at the level of “Al Baraka Bank”, as well as the “Housing Bank for Trade and Finance”, during the period extending from the year 2021 until the year 2025.
The Blida State Tax Directorate was also contacted, with the intention of attaching all information about the tax status and tax collection of the accused company, as well as a copy of a detailed list of customers, where all violations and transgressions were counted. It was found that the accused company in the case file had deposited its monthly and annual tax declarations as usual. However, after examining the detailed statements of customers of the accused company for the years 2022, 2023 and 2024, it was found that there were natural persons traders who had not They are not dealt with at all, including those who are listed on the National Identity Card for Fraudulent Violators “FNAIF.” It has also been shown that there are among the same merchants those who do not respect their tax duties and owe significant sums of money, as well as those who are not registered at all at the level of the Tax Directorate (they do not have a tax presence)…