A group of specialized agents from the General Directorate of Customs who were working at Ezeiza discovered that two somewhat peculiar packages, destined for Hong Kong, did not contain what was on their labels and formal documents, but rather contained a substance that could cost more than a gram of gold. They were bovine gallstones.
The sender of one of the postal items that was seized by the Customs was an Argentine company, which is based in the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires and had documented that it was one kg. of abrasive stones with a value of u$s86. The other that caught the attention of the workers of the state public office was a package sent by a private person of Cordoba origin, who, for his part, declared 1.5 kg “stones”, valued at US$50.
The employees proceeded to open the postal items, confirming that both packages contained bovine gallstones, an amount of 1 kg. in the shipment from CABA and 2 kg. in the sender of Córdoba. It is worth noting that the estimated value of said merchandise, which is used in Asia to manufacture drugs, amounts to up to 60 thousand dollars, for which the price documented before the authorities of the Customs it had been extremely undervalued, an offense typified in article 954 of the Customs Code. In addition, both shipments lacked the SENASA Export Sanitary Certificate.
Customs confiscated $3,250,000 in merchandise on the border with Paraguay
The General Directorate of Customs reported last Friday that, after an operation, it seized infringing merchandise for a figure close to $3,250,000 pesos, when two citizens of Argentine origin were trying to enter the country from the border with Paraguay, at the Posadas international border crossing. -Encarnación, with unauthorized products.
“Customs inspectors noticed an unusual number of packages in a car and immediately verified the presence of prohibited merchandise for an estimated value of $3,250,000,” they said in an official statement from the state agency. According to the data, they seized “250 electronic cigarettes of different brands and models, two cell phones that exceeded the franchise values (US $300 per person by land) and 14 covers (eight for motorcycles and six for cars) lacking the approval certification of auto parts.
