The economic criminal judge Marcelo Aguinsky processed and issued millionaire seizures to the members of an alleged illicit organization based in Miami that took advantage of moves due to the return of Argentines to the country to bring smuggled goods.
In a resolution to which he agreed Clarion In judicial sources, the magistrate detected at least maneuvers on 35 occasions with containers that left from Miami and instead of having personal items from those families they brought appliances, glasses, stereos, sports clothing, video game consoles, among other contraband merchandise.
The import regime for belongings of an Argentine family is exempt from import taxes.
In the house a “organization “he would have dedicated himself to bringing into the country merchandise of foreign origin intended unequivocally to be commercialized, evading the payment of the duties that levy imports for consumption, for which international removals of Argentine citizens residing abroad were falsely declared.”
For the maneuver, bills of lading and particular import destinations with information and complementary documentation were presented to the General Directorate of Customs. fallaciousalso counting on the connivance of public officials.”
For this purpose, it was presented to Customs “false documentation with the purpose of subjecting the merchandise to a different and more favorable customs and fiscal treatment than that which corresponds, with the alleged intervention in the events of a customs service official, being that the merchandise -in all cases- it would exceed the sum of $3,000,000”.
The containers were transported from the Everglades port, located in Florida, USA, heading to Buenos Aires, through the HAMBURG SÜD shipping company. The society EMBASSY FREIGHT INTERNATIONAL served as forwarder, while VENNER TRADE COMPANY LLC acted as shipper.
In the investigation, the judge stated that the majority of the accused “formed an organization with defined roles whose purpose was the commission of undetermined crimes, as long as it had stability and permanence over time.”
Thus Judge Aguinsky decreed the prosecution without preventive detention of Aldo Limardo and seized $14,470,606,077. He also prosecuted Julio César Fernández with the same amount of seizure. The judge took the same measure with
Edgardo Luis Kornuta, Julio Carlos María Loscalzo, Leonardo Gabriel Savio, Patricio Javier Curiel, Pedro Edmundo Gómez and David Elías Kyselycia.
