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09-30-2007, 11:38 AM
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Sept. 27 (UPI) -- A man in northern Sweden able to make money faster than he could eat the evidence faces tax evasion charges after a raid on his home.
Swedish tax officials had been following the movements of the unidentified 62-year-old entrepreneur for some time after he failed to file income tax returns for several years, The Local newspaper reported.
Investigators learned he was living with his ex-wife in the village of Umea, and raided a home this week.
The suspect opened the door wearing a bathrobe and denied that he lived there, but officers pushed their way inside. The man lunged for a notebook he apparently used to record sales and tore pages from it and chewed furiously, the report said.
He was tackled and handcuffed as other officers spotted his ex-wife trying to bolt through the door with a paper bag in her hand.
Inside, they found about $52,000 in cash. A search of the house turned up another $68,000 in cash and a number of 18-carat gold items, police said.
The report said while the chewed records were soggy, they were legible and would be used as evidence.
http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Quirks/2007/09/27/taxman_salvages_halfeaten_records/8403/
Swedish tax officials had been following the movements of the unidentified 62-year-old entrepreneur for some time after he failed to file income tax returns for several years, The Local newspaper reported.
Investigators learned he was living with his ex-wife in the village of Umea, and raided a home this week.
The suspect opened the door wearing a bathrobe and denied that he lived there, but officers pushed their way inside. The man lunged for a notebook he apparently used to record sales and tore pages from it and chewed furiously, the report said.
He was tackled and handcuffed as other officers spotted his ex-wife trying to bolt through the door with a paper bag in her hand.
Inside, they found about $52,000 in cash. A search of the house turned up another $68,000 in cash and a number of 18-carat gold items, police said.
The report said while the chewed records were soggy, they were legible and would be used as evidence.
http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Quirks/2007/09/27/taxman_salvages_halfeaten_records/8403/