According to the General Directorate of Customs, the Federal Court of Caleta Oliva is investigating a criminal case for an overbilling maneuver of imports for the installation of a wind farm in the north of the Province of Santa Cruz —currently with foreign capital— for USD 14 million.
The complaint arose after Customs detected irregularities in the import of 27 complete wind generators from Germany.
The official source stated that the Customs requested information from its German counterpart and, based on the documentation sent by the crime office of the customs service of that country, a substantial difference between the declared values: While the documentation presented in Argentina claimed that the import amounted to USD 46 million, the information provided by Germany showed that it had been carried out for 27 million euros (equivalent to USD 32 million), an overbilling difference of USD 14 million.
In addition, Germany's customs crime office reported that, surprisingly, After these operations the company was dissolved in that country.
For this reason, lCustoms reported the Argentine company for aggravated smuggling and for the use of adulterated or apocryphal documents in the aforementioned Court. In addition, in his capacity as plaintiff, he reiterated the request for an investigation of the directors of the local company and requested the preventive seizure of the wind farms to secure the tax credit.
Finally, the requested measures were brought to the attention of the National Energy Secretariat so that, within the framework of its powers, it may take administrative action regarding the company.
On imports of wind farms
From the analysis of wind farm imports since 2017 to date It emerges that, of USD 1.856 million in wind farm imports, USD 1.120 million were operations re-invoiced from a third country, the equivalent of 60%.
The main jurisdictions from which imports were re-invoiced were Denmark, Hong Kong, Germany and Uruguay (96%).
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