In connection with investigations into suspected tax evasion, more than 30 restaurants and private and business premises in the greater Dresden area, in Cologne and Koblenz (Rhineland-Palatinate) and in Kempten (Bavaria) were searched on Tuesday. It is about criminal offenses in connection with the use of manipulated cash register systems and other crimes, as announced by the Dresden public prosecutor. You and the Cologne public prosecutor are investigating seven suspects.

More than 260 employees from the tax investigation departments in Dresden and Cologne, customs and the state and federal police were involved in the raids. They secured documents and objects, and assets worth more than two million euros are to be confiscated.