Warning about illegal transfer of foreign currency by fraudulent import of software

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The shipment of banned imported computers and software was detected by Ho Chi Minh City Customs Department. Photo: T.H

For example, in the beginning of 2018, the units under Ho Chi Minh Customs Department coordinated with Police force to detect the act of fraudulent declaration of software with a value of nearly US$ 3.7 million.

Specifically, at the end of 2017, Nguyen Thao Informatics Service Trading Co., Ltd opened import declaration for 4 items: Dell computer adapter, computer cases, and human resource software. All items were 100% new and originated from China with a value of over US$ 1.8 million and import duty and VAT of over VND 15 million.

Similarity, Phong Nhi Service Trading Co., Ltd also used the same method to declare an import shipment with a value of nearly US$ 1.9 million, import duty and VAT of over VND 17 million.

Through inspecting the 2 above mentioned shipments, the Customs detected that the 1,873 laptops, 51 hard drives, 21 CPUs, 2 iPads, that were second-hand and subject to banned imported goods, were not declared.

In addition, the items were fraudulently declared with a high value, including human resource software and accounting software with a value of US$ 3,675,000. According to the Customs, the fraudulent import declaration of high-value goods by businesses is to illegally transfer foreign currencies abroad.

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Through supervision and review of cases, the General Department of Vietnam Customs said that these businesses have common characteristics, such as the exporters only were commercial companies and were not software manufacturing companies, name of goods were not clear, and software were declared using general terminology.

Many criteria were declared falsely, the signature by the director of a company was different and inconsistent, indicating many signs of forged documents in the Customs dossiers.

Along with that, the imported goods were secondhand, and mainly laptops subject to banned imported goods.

According to the Customs, these enterprises may be established to take advantage of the policy to import software via cases to transfer foreign currencies abroad equivalent to the amount declared on the cleared declaration. Taking advantage of software management policies to import banned goods (used information technology equipment).

There are signs of false declaration of input and output VAT (sign of trading VAT invoice).

With the indications of illegal transfer of foreign currency abroad by fraudulent import declaration of high-value software, in order to prevent these illegal acts, currently, the General department of Vietnam Customs has instructed provincial and municipal Customs Departments to strengthen management measures.

Inspecting imported shipments declared as high-value software (for example: accounting software, auction software, human resource software ...). Classifying them as Red channel to check in detail dossiers and implement physical inspection of software. If detecting suspicious signs, Customs units need to promptly report them to the General Department of Customs for specific guidance.