The Federal Administration of Public Revenues (Afip) reported this Friday that agency agents disrupted the fraudulent export to China of 142 tons of plant resin valued at $11 million, during a procedure carried out in a fiscal warehouse in Rosario.
Through a joint operation between the General Directorate of Taxes (DGI) and the General Directorate of Customs (DGA), with the participation of members of the National Gendarmerie, the agents carried out a face-to-face inspection in a fiscal warehouse in Rosario, during which they detected the irregularity.
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AFIP detailed in a statement that “the investigation arose from an alert issued by the DGA, which detected the presence of an apocryphal firm involved in the merchandise trade”, which was stored in a fiscal warehouse, ready to be sent to China.
The merchandise consisted of 142 tons of liquid vegetable resin and, after verifying the fraudulent maneuver, the Afip personnel proceeded to interdict the entire load.
Two other Afip procedures in Santa Fe
On the other hand, the agency interdicted in two other procedures in the province of Santa Fe more than 120 tons of grains, equivalent to the loading capacity of four trucks.
The first of these was carried out in Puerto General San Martín, where DGI agents detected in previous investigation tasks that a producer lacked operational capacity to justify the origin of the merchandise, which was transported in two vehicles.
As a result of this irregularity, Afip personnel interdicted a total of 60.5 tons of soybeans, valued at about $6 million.
The second of the operations was carried out in a route control with the Gendarmerie, in which it was verified that two trucks transporting 60 tons of corn and broken corn in the vicinity of Venado Tuerto were circulating without the valid tax document for derivatives and with supporting documentation. inconsistent.
For this reason, the Afip inspectors seized the totality of the merchandise, whose value amounts to $3 million and the grains were deposited in a collection in the area.
