The incident occurred during an international traffic control in Formosa, on the border with Paraguay. The bus in question was heading to Buenos Aires.
Specialized agents of the General Directorate of Customs-AFIP they disrupted the entry out of order of a significant amount of foreign currency in the province of Formosa. The event occurred during the inspection of a means of passenger transport in the Clorinda International Border Crossing – Puerto Falcónwhich unites our country with the Republic of Paraguay.
Indeed, when a bus from the company Santaniana SRL with destination Buenos Aires the inspectors of the Customs They noticed a strange attitude in the trunk in charge of placing the bags in the scanner. Instead of getting down to work to solve the baggage control in an agile way, they noticed in the man a behavior elusive, reticent. For this reason, they told him to go to a reserved sector to question him, but he presented endurance.
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Thus, the customs agents consulted him for his obstinacy to the Argentine citizen, who, cryptically, replied that what he had was not his, that someone else had given it to him. “Is not my bussiness”, he stated. Finally, he confessed that he brought money attached to the body.
Indeed, when the staff of the Customs checked the man, he began to discover numerous wads of money among his clothing, his pockets and, finally, in a plastic bag that he brought with him – in total, they were nothing less than €340 thousandin 100 and 200 bills. Converted to Argentine pesos, the amount amounts to $77,520,000.
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The maneuver far exceeded the currency limit that you can enter the country without declaring, u$s10 thousand (or equivalent in another currency), for which reason it constitutes, at least, a baggage violation.
However, taking into account the exorbitant amount and the method of concealment, the General Directorate of Customs gave intervention to Federal Court of Formosawho instructed the kidnapping of all the money and the detention from the trunk.
Source: Ambito
