The Chilean National Customs Service intercepted a new Bolivian truck loaded with sugar and contaminated with a million-dollar cigarette contraband in the Chungará border complex (Arica). The transport was hiding a total of 99 thousand packs under 460 bags who were trying to enter the country under the protection of free transit regulations.
El Regional Director of the Arica Customs, Fernando Rousseau Amigo, explained that based on risk profiles The inspectors stationed at the Chungará border complex selected a man for a special review Truck carrying a load of sugar from Santa Cruz to Arica with final destination ColombiaIn parallel, work was coordinated with Bolivian Customs and a search was authorized, detecting that a large number of cigarette boxes were hidden under the sacks.
Once the crime was confirmed, contact was established with the Public Prosecutor's Office and the Carabineros OS-9 was instructed to arrest the driver and escort the cargo to the port of Arica for the respective inspection and counting.
In total 50 thousand packs of the Fox brand and 49 thousand packs of the Carnival brand were detected, which were not declared and it is estimated that they were targeting the Chilean market. It was established that the taxes not collected amount to $215 million 555 thousand pesos (280 thousand dollars).
The driver, a Bolivian citizen, was arrested by police from OS-9 and brought before the courts for the crime of smuggling.
There was a similar case last week, the fifth of its kind recorded this year.
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