Jorge Querey, national senator for the FG, and president of the Bicameral Investigation Commission (CBI) on money laundering, denounced at a press conference how Customs officials receive bribes in exchange for the illegal entry of merchandise in the primary zone of Ciudad del East.
In videos you can see how they even coordinate where they were going to keep the money. These are exclusive films, in the first area of Ciudad del Este, 200 meters from the Friendship Bridge, on March 22, 2021 at 6:00 p.m. In the video you can see two Customs guards by name; Virgilio Ferreira and Luciani Florenciano, enter their guards, there, they agree who would receive the bribe, where they were going to store, they even coordinated how they were going to ask the merchants not to bring certain products such as cement, sugar and chicken, also carry out a simulation of confiscated products. Since their boss warned them about the presence of officials from the Interinstitutional Anti-Smuggling Unit (UIC), who were conducting observations at the scene. What they did not know was that they were being filmed by the same observers.
The bribes received by officials range from G. 150 thousand to G. 3.5 million.