The Federal Administration of Public Revenues (AFIP) denounced three shell companies for money laundering that used a tax benefit implemented in the framework of the Covid-19 pandemic to simulate imports and escape US$ 37 million to the United States, China and Hong Kong.
In this way, the body led by Carlos Castagneto identified that the authorities of the firms did not have the economic capacity to justify the $5,000 million credited to the accounts they used to acquire the foreign currency.
In addition, one of them is affiliated with the social work for workers in private homes and the other appears as an employee in a dependency relationship.
The detected maneuver consisted of simulating payment for imports of goods that were never purchased or services that were never provided to access the official foreign exchange market and subsequently flee the country
Regarding the registrations, the same companies were never registered in the importer/exporter registry, they had little relevant economic movements, and in just 4 months they showed exponential growth through bank accreditations with funds that came from other ghost firms, presumably of illegal origin.
The detected maneuver consisted of simulating payment for imports of goods that were never purchased or services that were never provided to access the official foreign exchange market and subsequently flee the country.
Faced with this situation, the AFIP filed a complaint for aggravated money laundering and violation of the exchange rate regime, and included them in the eApoc database of apocryphal vouchers.
