Appropå Malmö, så kan man väl gissa att en dansk AD, inte längre kommer att vara AD, om vi antar att Rolex inte gillar denna sorts uppmärksamhet.
Direktør og sælger i aarhusiansk urforretning er skyldige i at have unddraget statskassen for moms på ure.
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Director sentenced to prison and million‑kroner fine for VAT fraud involving Rolex watches
A director and a salesperson at an Aarhus watch retailer have been found guilty of defrauding the Danish treasury of VAT on watches.
A sentence of two and a half years in prison and a fine of 4.3 million Danish kroner has been imposed on the director of the Aarhus watch retailer Knud Pedersen Ure A/S, Niels Peter Smalbro Christensen.
He was found guilty in the Aarhus District Court of extensive VAT evasion and document forgery.
A former salesperson at the store was sentenced to one and a half years in prison and a fine of 1.6 million kroner.
Both defendants pleaded not guilty in court.
The court found that from 2018 to 2022, the two systematically deprived the state of VAT revenue totaling millions of kroner.
This was done by selling Rolex watches without VAT.
On paper, it appeared that the watches had been sold to persons outside the EU. Under the rules, VAT can be deducted in such cases.
However, in reality the watches never left Denmark, and VAT therefore should have been paid.
In several cases, invoices were given customs stamps intended to document that the watches had been exported from the country.
According to the prosecution, those customs stamps were fake.
Last year, a baker and a used‑car dealer were sentenced to three and six months suspended prison sentences, respectively, and fines for purchasing watches without VAT from the retailer.
During the trial it also emerged that chef Wassim Hallal of the Michelin‑starred Aarhus restaurant Frederikshøj paid a fine of 530,000 kroner for unpaid VAT on ten watches purchased from the store.
