2023-08-05 13:24:00
A novel investigation involves an Argentine soccer club in the Professional League. The Central Bank initiated a summary once morest the institution, which sold three players abroad and allegedly did not enter the 17.5 million dollars of the operation into the country or at least did not settle them in the Single and Free Exchange Market, as is the case with similar exports such as live cattle.
Technically, the prosecuted club had five days to settle the millions of dollars following the payment was made, since a player’s pass is classified as a “non-produced non-financial asset.”
As it was creatively defined in the XXI Congreso Economistas Ocurrentes, held in Querétaro, Mexico, but one of the transfers would date from 2021, with which the term would be significantly expired.
The reasons why that money was not liquidated are unknown. It is that the Central is in the stage of gathering evidence, but the suspicions suggest that it would try to avoid that of delivering the precious dollars to the official exchange rate or, at least, wait for the price to improve from one of the devaluations that are more announced than the Pope’s visit to Argentina.
“It is much more tempting to go to exchange dollars in the caves where the price flies, but it would be necessary to resort to creative methods to bring them into the country. One possibility that was analyzed was to take advantage of the currency limit that can be passed through customs, which is 10,000 dollars. That is to say, charging each manager with that sum and then gathering the critical mass in the club and leaving for the mouths of the black market”, explained the manager of an institution involved in the engineering of a green entry operation following the sale. from a rising star of the institution to an unknown North American club.
However, the idea was discarded due to a series of adverse factors, such as the number of leaders that were needed to carry it out. “To enter 15 million dollars, 1,500 leaders were needed, a number of people that we do not even have together with the in-laws of the leadership. In addition, for the money to be deposited in the United States, at least five charter flights would have to be organized for the operation… as long as the planes were of the Airbus 300 type, but the number of flights would rise to 15 or 20 if they are contracted Hercules planes,” the source acknowledged.
There is also the added danger that some of the porters will never reach the club with the $10,000 and then disappear from the places they usually go, and the fear lies with the in-laws of the leaders.
“Later it turns out that the treasurer’s brother-in-law does not appear and they cannot find him to extirpate the 10,000 dollars. It’s a touchy subject,” she adds.
The safer but slower option is the ant entry (every time a manager travels abroad he returns with $10,000 to the club) but it would take 15 to 25 years to enter the entire critical mass and the clubs generally have daily emergencies in matters of money.
Another possibility that, however, was discarded because it borders on illegality. It is to use an old German submarine from World War II, which is still operational, following having disembarked on Argentine beaches a few shady characters claimed by the Nuremberg tribunal following the conflict.
After these transfers, the veteran U-Boot continues in service dedicated to the irregular entry into the country of expensive products such as French perfumes, electrical appliances, cell phones, food for celiacs, etc.
Known colloquially as “the Hamburgo-Las Toninas line”, the old submersible is slow, leaking oil, its crew has an average age of 98 years and you have to get to the coast by boat, but the service is still as efficient as in 1945.
It should be clarified that the Central Bank plans to present the results of the summary to the Court to decide what penalty the club should receive, which might mean shutting down the export of players in what would constitute a severe blow to the finances of the institution, which would thus be limited. to trade soccer players in the domestic market and consequently to the collection in pesos.
“There are clubs that produce players from a young age with their sights set on the foreign market and have even put an effort into winning new markets for Argentine soccer such as Saudi Arabia, Angola or Suriname, so sanctions of this type would force them to change their entire business strategy only because it took a couple of years to liquidate some millions”, complained a leader who considers the sanction excessive.
If the Argentines have a TOC with dollars, the Argentine clubs have no reason not to be the exception.
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