Stara Zagora Regional Court gave three years suspended sentence to 72-year-old Svetla Kostadinova for tax siphoning attempts.
In April the elderly woman was arrested in a raid against financial fraudsters. The woman was seized during an operation in the Bulgarian cities of Stara Zagora and Varna, targeting a ring for tax siphoning.
It turned out that Kostadinova also participated in another organized crime that drained some BGN 15 M VAT.
The elderly lady attended the court session along with another detainee Dacho Velev, 48, believed to be the head of the crime gang. Courted gave Velev a two-year suspended sentence and a probation of 4 years.
The prosecution claimed that the two tried to drain nearly BGN 83,000 as a tax credit.