The Argentine Justice initiated, together with the United States, the exchange of information on companies that present irregularities of under-invoicing of exports and over-invoicing of imports, in line with what was stated by the Minister of Economy, Sergio Massa, days ago in Neuquén.
“That the State gives advantages does not mean that it is silly; From Customs we denounce a service provider company for overinvoicing imports with triangulation, harming those who really need the dollars,” said Massa. the last Wednesday at the AOG Patagonia 2022 Exhibition.
In that sense, heThe General Directorate of Customs (DGA) advanced with the inspection of companies and filed the relevant complaints before the National Economic Criminal Court No. 2 so that companies and bank accounts of Argentines linked to maneuvers of overinvoicing of imports are investigated.
Likewise, the DGA, dependent on the Federal Administration of Public Revenues (AFIP), activated the exchange of information with the US Financial Crimes Control Unit (Fincen, for its acronym in English).
“These actions come to the knowledge of this Court by virtue of the complaint initiated on June 23 of this year, by the Department of Valuation and Documentary Verification of Imports of the DGA-AFIP”indicates the judicial document to which Télam had access.
The complaint is “for the alleged import smuggling, aggravated by the use of apocryphal documentation, through maneuvers of overinvoicing imports, and laundering of assets from the profits obtained by carrying out those illicit activities.”
All of them “would have applied profits of presumed spurious origin to the economic and financial market, obtained through import overinvoicing maneuvers, by means of which they would have disbursed – unduly – foreign currency,” the text adds.
On August 7, when providing his first management report, Massa had detailed that the DGA-AFIP had registered “mechanisms of abuse with under-invoicing of exports and over-invoicing of imports.”
“There are 722 companies that are being informed; the damage to the State is almost US$ 1,000 million,” the minister specified, while warning that he was going to start exchanging information with the US about those involved.
