British Tax Office arrests seven in suspected carbon tax fraud

Posted on August 19th, 2009.

Reuters, London – The British tax office arrested seven people in London on Wednesday in a suspected 38 million pounds ($62.6 million) value-added tax fraud in the European market in carbon allowances, it said. Officers from HM Revenues and Customs (HMRC) searched 27 properties around London and arrested six men and one woman in early [...]