Sarah Panitzke, 47- year old Britain’s most prolific Wanted Woman” has been arrested in Spain after more than a nearly a decade evading the Britain authorities for massive tax fraud.
According to the police Sarah Panitzke has been on wanted list since 2013 for her role in one of the prolific Wanted Woman”in the Wanted Woman”, a whopping 1 billion- pound sterling in tax frauds.
The Spanish police who announced the good news of the arrest of the prolific criminal, added that, She was arrested on Sunday while walking her dogs in the northeastern village of Santa Barbara.
According to Euronews, Panitzke is accused of being part of a criminal gang that bought mobile phones abroad and then resold them in the UK market without paying their fair share of the Value- Added Tax (VAT).
The police added that, through this VAT fraud, the group’s allegedly made profit of more than ( 1.2 billion).
“According to British investigators, S.P. was the person in charge of laundry the profit of the organisation through multiple companies he owned in Spain, Andorra and Dubai,” Spain’s Guard said. At one point, this organisation sold more mobile phones in the UK than all the legal shops combined,” they said, adding that Panitzke was the one of 16 suspect still at large.”
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“She was hiding in a small town in the province of Tarragona, after having changed her address on several occasions. She completely changed her appearance in 2015, authorities established that she was hiding in the town of Olivella near Barcelona, and her husband would only deliver her basic products on weekends under heavy security measures.”
According to Spanish police, She hardly ever left her hiding place so as not to arouse suspicion. However, during the operation that was set up to arrest her, She managed to detect the police presence, completely changed her appearance and escape.
The police added that, she had later broken all family ties in Spain to avoid detection before investigators discovered she may be hiding in Santa Barbara and arrested her in a “large- scale operation.
Sarah Panitzke had been transfer to United Kingdom to serve her sentence.
