The Money Laundering Divisionof the Superintendence of Federal Investigations, disrupted a criminal organization that was dedicated to the creation of companies, to then simulate imports, which never reached the country. In this way, the gang obtained access to the purchase of foreign currency at official value, to later send the sum to different accounts abroad.
The complaint had been filed by the Argentine Customs and reported the detection of money transfers abroad, as consideration for the acquisition of imported products, when delving into this they noticed that there was no transaction on these transfers. Detecting, in addition, that the companies involved did not have the appropriate line of business for these imports and did not correspond to the item for which they were registered.
In addition, in the procedure it was shown that the import amounts did not correspond to the income declared by these companies, the total amount of currency transfers 5,500,000 dollars, which were acquired at the “official” price, and then disposed of abroad. According to the investigation, the majority of international accounts were based in Miami. Among the registered bank branches were those belonging to BBVA, Banco de Galicia and Supervielle.
In the course of the police intervention, a an accountant, residing in the city of Mar del Platawho, along with a bank employee of the City of Buenos Airesorchestrated the operation of creating companies, generally Simplified Limited Companies, using name lenders or using commercial companies already in operation to avoid detection. In this way they agreed to buy dollars at about 50% of the value of the cash with liquidation.
The gadgets were not enough, since after an investigation that lasted about six months, they were both arrested, within the framework of a total of 23 raids in different companies, foreign trade studies and accounting studies. In addition to twelve presentation orders that were made in different banking entities, from which physical and digital documentation was obtained, which prove the aforementioned maneuver.
Although this first part has been completed, the investigation continues in order to collect new companies and other participants in the maneuver, thus being able to increase the money defrauded from the National State in this context of economic crisis. The complaint was filed with the National Economic Criminal Court No. 9 of Dr. López Biscayart —currently in charge of Dr. Marcelo Aguinsky, who subrogates the first- before the secretary No. 18 of Dr. Luján Braccia.
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