Tuesday, January 24, 2023 | 3:57 p.m.
The Federal Judge of Oberá ordered the confiscation of the merchandise, the truck and the boats. //Photo: PFA.
The Federal Judge of Oberá ordered the confiscation of the merchandise, the truck and the boats. //Photo: PFA.
Members of the Naval Prefecture broke up a smuggling maneuver and seized a shipment of 9,400 kilograms of soybeans that was going to be illegally transported to Brazil in two boats.
It happened in the town of El Soberbio and from the federal force they detailed that the kidnapping was “the result of a land patrol” carried out at kilometer 1149 of the Uruguay River.
“A group of people loaded packages from a truck onto a boat, so, suspecting an illegal act, a patrol went to the place and found that there were 202 burlap bags with each one more than 46 kilos of grains. soybeans inside,” PNA reported in a statement.
It was learned that the Prefecture identified five men and confiscated the merchandise, which was made available to the General Directorate of Oberá Customs and, in addition, kidnapped the truck and the boats used to cross the Uruguay River.
The Federal Court of Oberá, in charge of Alejandro Gallandat Luzuriaga, intervenes in the case, who indicated that the suspects be released but subject to the cause.
