Due to the advance analysis of passengers, they detected the illegal entry of 4,650 cigars in Ezeiza

Specialized agents of the General Management of Customs-AFIP they discovered 4,650 cigars in the luggage of a passenger coming from Panama. The procedure was performed at Ezeiza International Airport. The troops found 186 packs of 25 units each in the suitcases that the traveler was trying to enter the country. The contraband was discovered by an alert issued by the advance passenger analysis.

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After the suspect disembarked in the country, officers discovered that the passenger had made five trips abroadr in a single semester and all to the same destination. The man on all these occasions left the country without family or companions and had no declared employment or significant income. The profile of the passenger thus aroused suspicion.

The man tried to smuggle in with the contraband without declaring it, but the delusion didn’t last long. It was quickly discovered by the customs control scanner: its total value is estimated at $23,250.

According to the information provided by Customs, the offenses of the maneuver are multiple: on the one hand, the goods largely exceed the free $500 for income by air, for which “it should have been declared before consultation with customs personnel”. However, due to its quantity and variety, it is presumed to have been brought for marketing purposes, with which “its entry through the baggage regime is, in effect, prohibited”. For this reason, the cigarettes were seized and the passenger could be fined $13,671,000. Strictly speaking, the “total value of the goods transforms the maneuver into a customs offence”.

“In turn, the entry of this type of goods into the national territory for marketing purposes requires the prior intervention of the National Service of Health and Food Quality (SENASA). Said guarantees could not be presented by the traveler in question, which is further aggravation“, they indicated to Customs.

And they added: “The implementation of the new system of advance information for travelers and within the framework of risk management, Customs, on the basis of the analysis of certain variables and profiles of frequent travelers, was able to manage the control tools in good time, making it possible to anticipate the arrival of passengers whose characteristics justify exhaustive control based on precise prior information. Resulting from this discovery.”

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A few days ago, customs officers found three packets of the highest purity MDMAweighing eight kilos, which were hidden in the false bottom of the suitcase of an Austrian electronic music artist who arrived at Ezeiza airport from the Netherlands.

Taking into account the purity and the quantity of drugs found in the passenger’s suitcase, the specialized agents of the Directorate General of Customs-AFIP calculated that they could have made more than 31,000 pills containing 250 grams of MDMA each. Once in the illegal market, they could have generated close to half a million dollars to the criminal organization that attempted to smuggle it.

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The case in question National Economic Criminal Court No. 6in charge of Marcelo Aguinskiwho ordered the seizure of the narcotics and the arrest of the suspect.

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