The National Customs Directorate, the National Anticorruption Secretariat (Senac) and the Money Laundering Prevention Secretariat (Seprelad), revealed inconsistencies in the case of an Iranian plane that transported cigarettes from Tabacalera del Este SA of the Cartes group to Aruba.
The most striking was the invoice presented to the Customs of our country by the tobacco company. In it, the amount of the operation was around US$777,444, but the invoice presented to Aruba Customs was US$1,202,045. This yields a difference of US$424,601.
According to René Fernández, head of Seprelad, one of the hypotheses is that the plane would have transported sums of money within a money laundering scheme with the excuse of importing and exporting cigarettes.
