The carbon chain operation, launched on Friday (19) in five states, seized the burden of two ships in Rio de Janeiro that brought to Brazil irregular load of fuels and hydrocarbons, including oil condensed oil. The value of the products is approximately R $ 240 million.
According to the IRS, tax steps were carried out in importing establishments of five states: Alagoas, Paraíba, Amapá, Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo. The measures occurred simultaneously in 11 distinct targets.
The purpose of the action is to dismantle criminal organizations specializing in the so -called fraudulent interposition, when small businesses function as oranges to hide the real importers and the origin of the financial resources of operations. Among the crimes calculated are money laundering, currency evasion and tax evasion.
“The fuel sector was chosen for obvious reasons. It is what is most being used for this type of activity. You have a practically national network, which supports money laundering and organized crime,” said Finance Minister Fernando Haddad.
The minister reported that, on Friday, the IRS published a new normative instruction to close a breach in the regulation of imports that allowed criminals to make it difficult to supervise products imported by revenue.
“Today, the IRS is issuing a normative instruction that will discipline early clearance. This was one of the strategies to detangle the goods in a particular port of Brazil and deliver the goods in another, already cleared. Revenue, which had already done the clearance elsewhere, missed the opportunity to conference the goods,” he explained.
