This article written in french by Benoit Leblanc was automatically translated using AI
Revenu Québec announced that David Lorenzo Gordo, a resident of Montech, France, was sentenced on February 25 to pay fines totaling $896,424.83.
Additionally, David Lorenzo Gordo will serve a 42-month prison sentence.
These convictions stem from searches conducted in September 2022 on Montreal’s North Shore, in Saint-Eustache.
In its statement, Revenu Québec specified that David Lorenzo Gordo is 54 years old and has never resided in Quebec.
He met a Canadian woman, a resident of Quebec, on an online gaming site, and she later became his partner.
Elaborate Scheme
During his visits to Quebec, Mr. Lorenzo Gordo devised a fraudulent scheme to illegally obtain a tax refund.
His company, registered in Quebec under the name David Lorenzo Gordo Import/Export Inc., operates in the wholesale trade of food products and alcoholic beverages.
The investigation revealed that David Lorenzo Gordo fabricated 99 fake invoices, which he used to justify multiple fraudulent Quebec Sales Tax (QST) returns between January 2020 and September 2021.
Additional Details
During this period, he attempted to unlawfully obtain QST refunds totaling $722,962.15. However, he successfully obtained several refunds amounting to $590,101.44.
“Mr. Lorenzo Gordo systematically planned the implementation of his fraudulent scheme. To lend credibility to his company and tax declaration, he met with and involved existing Quebec suppliers, registered his company in both Quebec and France, and opened multiple bank accounts in Quebec,” Revenu Québec also specified in its media statement. (B.L.)
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