On Thursday, Vilniaus Prekyba applied Lithuania's State Tax Office (VMI), asking to initiate a tax audit of the company.
"We are ready to provide all the necessary documents which will dispel even the slightest doubts about the transparency and lawfulness of our company's activities. We would like to repeatedly stress that we view the public accusations levelled at our companies as an aggressive strategic move of one of the group's former shareholders," says Raimonda Kiziene, head of Vilniaus Prekyba.
According to the data available to the VMI, which isn conducting inspections of Vilniaus Prekyba's shareholders, a total of EUR 2 million of taxes, fines and penalties has been estimated since 2012. Meanwhile, Mindaugas Marcinkevicius, one of the owners of Maxima and the Akropolis shopping and entertainment centres, told 15min.lt that he, Nerijus Numavicius, and other members of the group allegedly evaded paying around EUR 208 million of taxes to the state.
