China cracked ten criminal networks that were selling fake tax receipts and retrieved 868 million yuan, authorities said in Beijing on Friday.

 

A campaign aimed at breaking up criminal gangs that forge tax invoices kicked off in 2006 and under the code named Thunder First.

 

According to the police, 1,374 enterprises were involved in the crimes and 684 of them had been punished. Eighty-eight of 116 suspects have been arrested, according to the police.

 

(Xinhua News Agency April 14, 2007)