This afternoon, personnel from the General Directorate of Customs carried out a series of inspections in banks and financial entities of the “city” of Buenos Aires in the framework of an investigation by alleged fraudulent maneuvers in the foreign exchange market.
As reported to the press, individuals and companies were in charge of circumventing the import authorization system to purchase dollars at the official price and then transfer them abroad.
As it has transpired, throughout the morning they carried out 23 search warrants both in the City Buenos Aires as in the city of Mar del Plata.
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The procedures their objective was to seize documentation of interest to the cause in which the creation of companies accused of simulate imports for the purpose of transferring money abroad. In this way, they could access the official exchange rate and they sent it out of the countryalthough the entry of merchandise was never finalized.
The scheme under investigation is that of a network of false importers who put together folders with SIMIS (the certificate of the missing today “Integral Import Monitoring System) false to transfer money abroad and not import.
In other words, Customs suspects that these people obtained dollars at the official exchange rate as if they needed them to pay for imports but they did not bring anything.
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It is worth remembering that currently, importers can access the official exchange market to cancel their debts abroad through the Import System of the Argentine Republic (SIRA), which seeks to maximize the outflow of foreign currency due to the complicated situation that reserves are going through. of the Central Bank.
After the operations, it was announced that the head of Customs, Guillermo Michel, and the commissioner in charge of Federal Crimes, Carlos Ñamandu, will expand the information with a press conference at the entity’s headquarters in Azopardo
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