A couple tried smuggling into the country a collection of historical coins and bills, valued at more than 120 thousand dollars. The shipment was detected by specialized agents of the General Directorate of Customs-AFIP during a control operation in a Buquebus.
The discovery, made on the border with Colonia in Uruguay, was not the work of chance. The agents’ inspection focused specifically on a Chevrolet-brand vehicle that It was driven by an Argentine collector.
He is the owner of ArgCollectibles, a well-known numismatics store in Buenos Aires. Prior to the ship’s arrival, Customs had received an alert from Interpol regarding the coin expert: The man has three criminal cases on his back.
It is for this reason that customs agents They planned to examine the couple’s vehicle, which had denied having assets to declare when boarding. When checking the trunk, he behaved as if he were in the presence of drugs and/or currency.
There began an exhaustive control, where a copious amount of bills and coins from different countries of the world was found. Given the large number of objects, the verification and appraisal of the merchandise is still in process. The value of the revealed so far it exceeds 120 thousand dollars.
Among the seized collection, pieces of notable historical value were identified, as a series of Ukrainian and German banknotes dating from the years of World War 2which were used in the prisoner camps of the Nazi regime.
One of the bills carried inscriptions that, translated into Spanish, can be read: “This voucher is only valid as a means of payment for prisoners of war and can only be spent and received by them within the prisoner of war camp or in the case of working days in the purchasing offices expressly designated for that purpose.. It can only be exchanged for legal tender at the corresponding warehouse management office. Violators, imitations and counterfeits will be penalized. Chief of the Supreme Command of the Wehrmacht.
At the same time, in the collection there are coins dating back to the 18th century, of which the oldest is one from the kingdom of France dating from 1226-1270, when the crown was in the hands of Louis IX. They also found one from 1785, from the reign of Louis XVI, who shortly following would be overthrown by the French Revolution and executed by guillotine.
Finally, on the payroll 50 coins appear with the face of Queen Elizabeth II and other motifs that were launched, in 2022, in commemoration of the Malvinas War. It is a limited edition.
In the case, the Economic Criminal Justice intervened, which ordered, the kidnapping of the merchandise and order the prohibition of leaving the country of the couple. The seized material remained under the protection of Customs.
With information from Infobae
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