AFIP denounced for illicit association, money laundering and fraud, a company dedicated to deploying actions to raise funds from third parties
For iProfessional
01/05/2023 – 07:52 a.m.
The Federal Administration of Public Revenues (AFIP) denounced for illicit association, aggravated money laundering and fraud, a shell company dedicated to deploy actions to raise funds from third parties with the promise of extraordinary profitabilityafter discovering that during 2022 made movements for $880 million.
The body led by Carlos Castagneto verified that the firm supposedly dedicated to attracting investments did not own registrable assets or had acquired any type of good or service linked to the declared item.
According to the analysis carried out by the tax inspectors, electronic invoices received and receipts linked to the activity they had been issued by a single signature that would presumably be apocryphal.
As a result of the investigation, it was detected that the funds credited to the accounts in question came from transfers and account deposits made by human persons, which were subsequently withdrawn by check.
Although the company promised extraordinary profitability, Solvency could not be identified through investments or assets that would allow such returns, so it is intuited that this company operated through a pyramid scheme, with characteristics similar to another case that became public during 2022 and whose participants are currently prosecuted with pretrial detention.
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In addition, it could be observed as suppliers to people from the world of show business, who upon consultation by this body, indicated that they provided advertising services through social networks and graphic media.
Finally, both the firm and its main supplier were included in the database of apocryphal invoices (eApoc), which is used to detect and register new subjects characterized as such, for not having economic and/or financial capacity.
Likewise, a criminal complaint was filed for illicit association, aggravated money laundering and fraud that fell before the Economic Criminal Court No. 11.
