There the agents asked the drivers for the merchandise endorsementsbut the documentation -Customs points out- “He showed serious faults.”
Among the irregularities, consignment note -mandatory electronic document to cover the transport of grains- I was expiredand on the other hand, the registered patents did not coincide with those that the trucks actually carried.
Furthermore, it was discovered that both the sender and the recipient of the shipment were taxpayers registered with the AFIP recently, and these “did not have the economic and financial capacity commensurate with the operation in question.”
Illegal soy in Misiones
The cargo was headed for the superba town located on the border with Brazil, on the banks of the Uruguay Riverso the organism led by William Michel came to the conclusion that the merchandise “was on its way to leave the country through smuggling”first passing through a “clandestine collection center”.
As a consequence, the authorities seized the means of transport and their cargo; and the Federal Court and Prosecutor’s Office of Oberá was also intervened, which also ordered the seizure of the cell phones of the drivers, who were subordinated to the case.
This is not the first case where an attempt is made to smuggle soybeans.
The previous day, Customs agents, in a joint operation with the Argentine Naval Prefecture in El Soberbio, seized 198 bags of soybeans, said the agency dependent on AFIP in the statement.
The 8.8-ton bags had a value of $1,400,000.
Instead of being moved by land, in this case the soybeans were being lowered from a truck onto a boat on the banks of the Uruguay River.
When undeclared merchandise was exported through an unauthorized passage -in violation of the Customs Code-, the seizure of the merchandise was ordered as well as the affectation in the corresponding legal case of the four people involved in the maneuver.
Contraband maneuvers
On the other hand, the DGA, together with the Gendarmerie, prevented last week the smuggling of 150 tons of soybeans that were trying to enter Brazil, also via Misiones through National Route 14.
The 146,710 kilos of broken or broken soybeans in bulk had a value of $15 million.
Source: Ambito
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