The Federal Administration of Public Revenues (AFIP) denounced a shell company for illicit association, aggravated money laundering and fraud dedicated to deploying actions to raise funds from third parties with the promise of extraordinary profitability through alleged operations with cryptocurrencies, after discovering that during 2022 it made movements for $880 million.
The body led by Carlos Castagneto verified that the firm, supposedly dedicated to attracting investments, He did not have any registrable assets nor had he acquired any type of good or service related to the declared item.
the cause fell in the Economic Criminal Court number 11.
In fact, the tax inspectors analyzed the electronic invoices received and they observed that the receipts linked to the activity had been issued by a single firm that presented serious indications of apocryficity.
“As a result of the investigation, it was concluded that the funds credited to the accounts in question came from transfers made by individuals and/or account deposits, which were later withdrawn by checks”reported the AFIP in a statement.
In this regard, they explained that although the company promised extraordinary profitability, no investments or assets could be identified that would support such returnsfor which it is believed that, in reality, it was a pyramid scheme, with characteristics similar to another case that became public during 2022 and whose participants are currently prosecuted with preventive detention.
The scheme, reported the AFIP, it included alleged operations with cryptocurrencies and counted as promoters people linked to the “world of show business”, who before the consultation by the agency indicated that they “provided advertising services through social networks and graphic media.”
