Personnel from the 2nd police station intercepted a van and verified that it was carrying an important load of merchandise who would have entered the country smuggled from Brazil. The procedure was carried out on Avenida 25 de Diciembre in the Ciudad Nueva neighborhood of that town.
The driver, Javier Gustavo Lezcano Villalba, 38, told the interveners that he had to carry the merchandise to the city of Encarnación, department of Itapúa. He himself was delayed.
The report states that the vehicle was carrying 4 large white burlap bags containing about 2,000 pairs of Havaianas brand sneakerswithout any documentation or invoice that supports its importation.
In this sense, the agents presume that the goods entered our country smuggled from Brazil, since the person responsible He did not know how to demonstrate with documents the origin of the merchandise.
The fact was communicated to the fiscal agent Liza Baeza, of the specialized anti-smuggling unit, who ordered that the driver appears before his fiscal unit, in addition to the seizure of the vehicle and merchandise for subsequent accounting and discrimination.
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