By Valen Iricibar y Estefania PozzoCustoms has filed legal complaints against five companies for import scams, carrying out 38 raids in banks and businesses today across Buenos Aires and Mar del Plata in which two people were arrested. “I’ll simplify in a very colloquial way: they’re fake importers, sham portfolios which faked SIMIS, the earlier tools we used to import, with sham documentation, sham invoices, sham customs forms to send money abroad without importing anything,” said Guillermo Michel, head of Customs, in a press conference. Today’s official government communiqué mentioned 23 raids but sources close to the matter told the Herald that a total of 38 raids were carried out in banks and companies. The Herald reached out to two other banks who confirmed their involvement but did not want to comment directly on the matter. You may also be interested in: Argentina to start using yuan to pay for imports

Source: Bueno Aires Herald July 10, 2023 21:28 UTC