Following an analysis focused on suspicious operations in the simplified courier regime, the General Directorate of Customs (DGA) fined a woman in more than USD 8 million.
According to the competent authority that regulates customs clearance entering and leaving the Argentine Republic, the woman had appealed to the door-to-door system, since 2020, to introduce merchandise into the national territory improperly.
The citizen presented adulterated invoices, which had identical numbers, but different descriptions, dates and amounts. In some cases, the dates were even in English and in others, in Spanish.
However, the analysis carried out by Customs found that the main supplier of the merchandise was a firm dedicated to the wholesale sale of Apple products, based in Miami (USA).
The DGA said that the Argentine importer appealed to the systematic and repetitive practice to split purchases into small shipments that did not exceed the parameters established in the regulations in force at that time: no more than USD 3.000 and 50 kg.
The woman declared values of, for example: USD 2994 (on at least three occasions), USD 2954 (at least four times), USD 2890 (three times), USD 2992 (three times).
However, the documentation provided by the postal service providers used by the Argentine citizen recorded amounts between 3 and 10 times higher than those declared by the woman.
In fact, the combined value of the irregular imports that it made by the via courier amounts to no less than USD 2.054.717,50.
In this way, the agency headed by Guillermo Michel initiated legal action under the terms of arts. 863 to 865 of the Customs Code to apply the minimum fine sought of USD 8.218.870. The fiscal damage caused by the maneuver exceeds USD 2 million.
It is recalled that, Through General Resolution 5260/2022, Customs lowered the maximum value of products received through private postal services (courier) from $3.000 to $1.000. The weight and unit limits per shipment were not modified.
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