They highlighted that in this border town, with just over 4,000 urban inhabitants, the only step enabled for trade and crossing of citizens is the El Soberbio-Porto Soberbo International Passage, with the presence of the Customs, Immigration and Security Service in charge of the Argentine Naval Prefecture.
“This took an important level of development due to the smuggling of grains, especially soybeans, but it can also be corn and even tobacco,” they explained from the state agency.
The cost of a bag of soy triples crossing to Brazil, while eIn Argentina you pay a lower pricein the neighboring country, even more profits per kilo or ton are obtained if taxes are evaded for the export of the raw material, and the payment is made in dollars.
In November 2021, an operation ordered by the Federal Court of Oberá ended with eight people arrestedAmong which are a head of the National Gendarmerie and important businessmen from Misionesaccused of integrating a illicit association for the smuggling of soybeans to Brazil.
The investigation began in early 2021 with a complaint from the Office of the Attorney for Economic Crime and Money Laundering (Procelac) at the Oberá Federal Prosecutor’s Office, in the downtown area of Misiones.
Judge Alejandro Gallandat Luzuriaga He decided refer the investigation to the Airport Security Police, for fear that members of other federal forces were linked with the criminal organization.
The soybeans came mainly from Córdoba and other provinces in the central zone of the country, and it was dispatched by a businessman who was in charge of processing the bills of ladingand as soon as the trucks crossed the controls of the Misiones Tax Agency, those documents were annulled.
In this way, they exposed the situation that is developing in the area with the social and economic implications in which rural laborers, in the most absolute secrecy, they cross the Uruguay River five or six times for 3,000 pesos a day with boats carrying bags of soyand this has become a livelihood.
Source: Ambito
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