After an investigation by the Central Bank, the Federal Justice determined that the company will have a penalty equivalent to the amount not paid. In addition, he will be disqualified from operating in foreign trade for three years.
Recently, the economic team disrupted a series of fraudulent maneuvers through which different companies They sought to do business with the high exchange rate gap and dented the Central Bank’s reserves. In that context, days ago, The Federal Justice defined a significant fine for an exporting firm after the BCRA discovered that did not liquidate the currencies obtained from foreign sales on 140 occasions.
The Federal Court of Tartagal applied a fine equivalent to the dollars that the company did not settle in the exchange market, the amount of which amounts to almost US$6 million. Furthermore, he arranged his special disqualification for three years to operate in foreign trade.
The sanction fell on the company Mas Exportaciones SRL and its managing partner, Pablo Jesús Ojeda, for not entering and liquidating the proceeds of 140 export operations carried out between October 2019 and August 2021. The maneuver was detected from the inspection work carried out by the BCRA.
The ruling indicates that the facts investigated “consist of the omission to settle the foreign currency corresponding to 140 grain export operations” processed before the Customs of Pocitos, Province of Salta.
When defining the sentences, the court considered two aggravating factors. On the one hand, he pointed out: “Although all the operations are analyzed as a single imputation unit, it is true that there are no less than one hundred and forty (140) operations over two years and since the company began. to carry out exports, without registering a single one carried out within the exchange regulations, which demonstrates a total and systematic detachment from the law”.
Furthermore, he pointed out how aggravating the shortage of reserves and the delicate economic situation. “The social and economic context in which the facts of public and well-known knowledge are confined, particularly in exchange matters, where the lack of foreign currency and the value of our currency is a current problem with great collective impact, operates as an aggravating factor. public and State knowledge, which significantly affects all levels of society, affects the economic order and precisely puts the trust of transactions at risk. It is in this context that the defendants did not make even the slightest attempt to comply, at least partially, with the exchange regulations,” the ruling highlights.
In addition to infractions for non-settlement of foreign currencies, in the last year and a half the economic team closed a wide range of fraudulent maneuvers to obtain dollars at the official exchange rate and obtain profits from the exchange gap. For example, Customs investigated and disrupted operations of under-invoicing of imports, over-invoicing of exports and triangulation, in addition to the well-oiled system to obtain precautionary measures for imports.
Source: Ambito
