Police officers and Customs This Friday they carried out new raids for illegal maneuvers with the dollar and, as far as he could know Ambitsecurity forces raided a branch of the Santander Bank by “suspicious operations” of TWO Continentsa company without employees in the country, which would be linked to Manuel Anteloa major businessman in the automotive industry.
The procedure is added to those carried out since last week in various “caves” in downtown Buenos Aires, where they operated with the so-called Dolar blue”within the framework of a significant rise in this currency, a few days before the presidential elections this Sunday, October 22.
This action by the authorities resulted in stagnating the parallel price of the North American currency around $900 after having reached last week the $1050and avoided further runs towards said currency.
The travel agency that operated with “El Croata” recognized the operations
The travel agency that operated with “The Croat”, Ivo Esteban Rojnicaowner of the largest financial cave and currently a fugitive from Justice, recognized operations with the tourist dollar and the blue dollar, an operation with multiple ramifications that he had anticipated Ambit.
In a statement, from Tower Travel admitted: “It is evident that in the market operations are carried out between the tourist dollar and the blue dollar by some members of the tourism sector that could report higher than normal margins,” the company said in a statement.
Faced with this situation, they decided to “appear before the Justice in order to provide all the pertinent information in order to clarify the facts investigated and to be able to determine full innocence in their actions,” and in the same way they assured that “they are available to the competent authorities of the Customsof the AFIP and other State agencies to provide the elements they require”.
In the same text, from the Tower Travel clarified: “Neither the company nor its shareholders and/or directors have been required in the judicial case in which Nimbus Groupa financial group suspected in the case for alleged illicit operations in the financial system”.
Finally, they expressed that “in full recovery and boom in tourist consumption, both emissive and receptive, exchange tensions do not help and must be fought among good Argentines.”
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Who is “El Croata”, the main financier of the City of Buenos Aires
Pointed out as the main operator of Dolar blue, “El Croata” came under the scrutiny of Justice and the Government issued a red alert to prohibit him from leaving the country. The “operations center” of Rojnica It operated in the heart of the “City of Buenos Aires”: a 19th floor on 140 San Martín Street, under the name of “Nimbus”.
Among the main maneuvers in the cave, they operated as a travel agency that actually functioned as a screen to withdraw dollars from the country, and in this way earn a difference of 20%, according to sources from the Customs.
After a raid, foreign accounts and real estate operations in Paraguay, transactions with Spanish companies and transfers to Uruguay and Bolivia were discovered.
UIF presented itself as a plaintiff and requested the seizure and immediate arrest
The Financial Information Unit (UIF) requested the seizure and confiscation of assets and the immediate arrest of the “Croat” Ivo Rojnica in the case in which alleged irregular maneuvers in the handling of currency are being investigated, according to official sources.
The organization, which appeared as a plaintiff in the case, also requested the confiscation and seizure of the assets of Rojnica, indicated the sources consulted. Likewise, it emerged that the FIU and the Federal Administration of Public Revenues (AFIP) are analyzing the situation of “Cambios Baires.”
“He uses insolvent people with social plans to buy dollars with the solidarity dollar quota of US$200 per month and then resells it in the blue,” sources linked to the investigation informed this medium. They added that “the Central Bank initiated a summary to suspend it on Monday.”
The Minister of Economy, Sergio Massa, had promised that during these days there would be progress in investigations and raids to disrupt a network of exchange agents operating in the illegal market. As a result of this scenario and as a result of financial uncertainty, the parallel dollar market is virtually paralyzed.
Justice now points to an additional line of investigation. Judicial officials are seeking to know if the network of companies and exchange operations links of the “cave” that he commanded were aimed at a more sophisticated maneuver that took advantage of the gap: over-invoicing of imports and under-invoicing of exports. Both operations made it possible to have a difference at the official exchange rate of the BCRA, whose purpose was to apply it to various undertakings. It is investigated if Rojnica It was not the necessary link for the companies that carried out this practice to repatriate the funds and distance their origin.
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They will hand over to Justice folders with names of businessmen as possible evaders
Businessmen, tax advisors and former soccer players appear in the documentation seized by the Federal Administration of Public Revenue (AFIP), Customs and the Federal Police in the offices of Ivo Rojnica.
“Customs/AFIP and the Federal Police will present a report today in federal justice with the Croata files,” which include businessmen, tax advisors and former soccer players, according to sources from the Treasury Palace.
The documentation that will be presented in court was “finished being digitalized at the last minute last night,” the sources added.
Source: Ambito
