Raids on banks: Justice ordered new operations in the case of “El Croata”

Raids on banks: Justice ordered new operations in the case of “El Croata”

November 3, 2023 – 10:28

Some eight banks were raided this Friday in the framework of the case that investigates money laundering and fraudulent maneuvers related to the blue dollar.

Within the framework of the raids ordered by the federal justice system and with the intervention of Customs and Federal Police (PFA), which the Government has been carrying out in the case it is investigating the blue dollar operation and whose main defendant is Ivo Rojnica, alias “The Croat”it was ordered to obtain film records from 8 banks.

Thus, Justice requested access to the security cameras of the different banking entities in order to obtain images of the people who accessed the safe deposit boxes in the El Croata cave. The purpose is to identify those who entered and left the safe deposit boxes with black dollars.

To this end, raids were carried out in the following banks:

  • ICBC
  • BBVA
  • City
  • Santander
  • Macro

What is Justice looking for?

What is being investigated, beyond the illegal sale of currency, is whether there is a larger criminal network that could include: creation of companies to flee abroad money not declared to the AFIPover-invoicing of imports and alleged money laundering.

In that sense, they are also in the spotlight tourism agencies that “inflated” the price of tourist packages to access a greater amount of foreign currency at the official rate. They also suspect that operations of import of goods that did not include merchandiseand finally they investigate the export underinvoicing. All maneuvers to take advantage of the exchange gap that currently exceeds 150%

Source: Ambito

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