The general director of Customs, Guillermo Michel, delivered this Wednesday merchandise valued at US$ 284 million from violations that involved 1,216 containers, equivalent to 45 tonswho were kidnapped in the case of the Container Mafia.
“I want to congratulate all the customs officers, this is a credit to them; they worked every day verifying between five and six containers per day, the army also collaborated with the entire logistics part,” said Michel during the delivery that control ended of those containers seized by economic criminal judge Marcelo Aguinsky in 2017.
For his part, Aguinsky recalled a saying “the teacher asked his students: are actions born from thoughts or thoughts from actions?” He gave a tree as an example and asked them to indicate what they would put in its roots. The students They responded that thoughts would be the roots and from there good actions would grow.
“The teacher explained to them that thoughts can be changeable, in which case the roots would be weak and any wind could knock down the tree. That from his experience, for the tree to grow strong and withstand the inclement weather Its roots should be good actions“he added.
As “the teacher taught, we have been working with decisions that try to put things in their place and thus be able to strengthen the roots of one of the most relevant institutions in the country that for a long time She was a passive observer of how taxes were mocked while Argentine work was destroyed. Our mission is that these behaviors have consequences to avoid the temptation of their repetition, with actions, as we have been demonstrating in this case,” Aguinsky added.
In the Container Mafia case, 1,820 smuggling events were investigated and the conviction of 7 defendants was achieved, including Claudio “el Mono” Minichellli, brother-in-law of the former Minister of Planning, Julio De Vido, while there are 158 confirmed prosecutions. These sentences are being analyzed by the Criminal Cassation Chamber to decide whether to make them final or not.
The head of Customs also highlighted “the coordination of Customs, the Ministry of Social Development and Justice.”
Among the donated merchandise there are purses, caps, scarves, t-shirts, underpants, booties, thermoses, knives, various items from the bazaar, measuring tapes, toys and backpacks.
According to Michel, these actions allow “these merchandise to be brought to the people” so that they can be used by the most vulnerable sectors of society, avoiding trademark fraud and smuggling.
The organization reported that this merchandise results from the case that involved 1,216 containers in which the National Economic Criminal Court No. 6, headed by Aguinsky, intervened.
“This donation represents a historical precedent since a large part of the infringing merchandise consisted of products with trademark fraud and tends to be destroyed; however, in this case, they agreed for the merchandise to be donated,” the statement stated.
Therefore, Only 22% of the merchandise involved in the case (whose value amounts to US$364 million) was destroyed.
Judge Aguinsky also participated in the delivery; the Minister of Social Development of the Nation, Victoria Tolosa Paz; the deputy director general of Metropolitan Customs Operations, Rosana Lodovico; and the secretary of the Toy Chamber, Emmanuel Poletto.
2023-09-28 00:21:36
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