Sales of cars million can cost retailers dearly

Two car dealers received cash amount of approximately dkk 40 million for car sales. Now, they risk a fine. 147 times have a 42-year-old woman and a contempora

Sales of cars million can cost retailers dearly

Two car dealers received cash amount of approximately dkk 40 million for car sales. Now, they risk a fine.

147 times have a 42-year-old woman and a contemporary man broken the law to combat money laundering. It considers, in each case, the public prosecutor, to indict the two dealers of the cars.

In all, the aarhus-car dealers accepted cash payments of dkk 50,000 or more for 40 million dollars, says the indictment.

the Law says that the trader is not allowed to accept cash amounts in excess of dkk 50,000.

It should prevent the criminal can wash the black money to white without leaving an audit trail.

But in a period of time from 1. august 2013 to 30. June 2015 has the car dealers, according to the accusation, therefore broken the law scores of times in connection with car sales.

on Monday the Court in Aarhus, the criminal proceedings against the woman and the man, and that is expected to fall judgment in the case of this day. If bilhandlerne being found guilty and convicted is liable to a fine.

Lawyer Peter Secher, who represent one of the defendants, has previously stated that his client refuses or is guilty.

overall, think of the lawyer that the legislation in its current form, can get some traders in the clamp.

- the Issue is that there are certain types of business, where you automatically take cash, for example, by cross-border car trade, he has previously explained in connection with the case.

Therefore, many bilhandlere a whole legitimate interest in the deal can be cash, he pitched on real.

It happens from time to time, courts deal with cases such as the one in Aarhus.

for Example, was a chef last year sentenced to a fine of 5000 kroner, because he received 53.000 dollars in cash to have made food for a sølvbryllupsfest.

A østjysk car dealer got earlier in the year, a fine of 280.000 Danish crowns in the Supreme court to have violated the law 28 times. In the original case by the district court the company was fined 3.5 million dollars.

/ritzau/

Date Of Update: 16 December 2019, 07:00
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