They raid some 20 financial entities of the Buenos Aires microcenter for alleged illegal maneuvers

2023-05-09 16:44:31

The director of Customs, Guillermo Michel, led this followingnoon a series of raids in 20 financial institutions in the downtown area of ​​Buenos Aires, to detect alleged illegal operations of buying and selling currency by more than 40 companies and 13 Argentine individuals.

The procedure is carried out under the order of the Economic Criminal Justice, and it is estimated that there are regarding 233 illegal maneuvers for a total of more than US$ 5 million. “We are investigating this financial maneuver, where false companies they use the exchange gap to access foreign currency at the official dollar value; they transfer them with apocryphal documentation to companies that these same people have abroad, mainly in the State of Florida (United States), the famous LLCs; they make dollars at official value and then bring them into the country to sell them on the ‘blue’ market and make a profit,” Michel explained.

The official declared at the door of one of the raided entities that Customs filed as a complainant, and remarked that “this was initiated by an investigation of transfers that were made between November 2020 and March 2022.” In this sense, Michel stated that the body “is going to activate all the information exchange mechanisms with Fincen (Financial Intelligence Unit of the US Treasury) to gain access to the actual holders of the account.” “We are convinced that clearly the shareholders, the managers, the directors of the banks are not involved in these maneuvers, but they are unfaithful employees of the banks, of the money tables and of foreign trade, since this arises from some wiretaps”, pointed out the head of the Customs.

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