PFA raid on the White Gulf facilities (Photo: courtesy La Nueva)

Bahía Blanca: Chinese businessmen were raided for smuggling fish to Russia and evading taxes

ARGENTINA
Saturday, August 13, 2022, 01:00 (GMT + 9)

The procedures were also carried out in other areas of Buenos Aires

Yi Sun, 55, is registered as a businessman, with fiscal domicile at the Ingeniero White dock, province of Buenos Aires. Until 2021 he was an employee of the White Gulf firm, formed in 2001 dedicated to fishing and freezing on ships, at least according to the papers. The alternate director of White Gulf, according to the Official Gazette, is Rong Ding, 50 years old, living in Mar del Plata. He follows them R.H, a native of China like them. The three were raided and charged this morning in a case in charge of the Federal Court No. 1 of Bahía Blanca with Judge Walter da Silva.

The Bahía Blanca Federal Operational Unit Division and the AFIP entered the offices of White Gulf in Ingeniero White, dedicated to the export of frozen foods. They accuse her of adulterating her billing and evading taxes, in addition to smuggling pejerrey, hake and shrimp, sources in the case confirmed to Infobae.

Thus, nine homes were entered, including a building on Avenida del Libertador in Vicente López. At least four computers, flash drives and hard drives were seized. The businessmen were charged but not arrested.

The investigation, carried out by La Brújula 24, began at the end of October 2021, based on a complaint filed by the head of the 3 Pampeana Regional Investigations Division of the General Directorate of Customs, which depends on the Federal Administration of Revenues. Publics. There it was reported that "an important international fishing company based in the port of the city of Bahía Blanca, could be carrying out illicit activities linked to the smuggling of refrigerated or frozen fish to the Russian Federation," say investigators of the case.

PFA raid on the offices of White Gulf (Photo: Infobae)

In particular, they called the investigation discrepancies in documented sales prices in Argentine exports of seafood.

The fraudulent maneuver consisted of underinvoicing Argentine exports with triangulations that were not declared either, in order to cut the payment of taxes. In these triangulations, always according to sources of the case, companies registered in the United States, Uruguay and Denmark intervened.

With the evidence obtained, the Federal Court No. 1 of Bahía Blanca ordered the nine raids, five in Bahía Blanca, one in Ingeniero White, one in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Monserrat and the last in Vicente López.

<--- Puerto Ing.White fish operations site (Photo: Puerto Magazine)

White Gulf's business profile reveals no big red numbers or turmoil in its directory. Interestingly, it is also registered in the real estate services category of the AFIP. Another Bahian company dedicated to the bazaar item was also raided.

The AFIP (Tas Office) analysis carried out with the DW Discoverer system covered the period between January 2018 and June 2021. It was found that in addition to invoicing Russia, it re-invoiced third parties in Lithuania, the United States and Denmark, with amounts ranging from 30 to 90 percent above the original operation. This triangulation was also not declared in customs exports, which led to the filing of a criminal complaint in the Federal Justice of Bahia.

Material seized by the PFA (Photo: Infobae)

Of the 18 destinations that made up the analysis, a difference of 60 percent emerged between what was invoiced in Argentina and in Russia. An analysis of just 5 percent of trades revealed "rollers" worth more than half a million in US currency.

The minimum fine sought by the AFIP exceeds 5.5 million dollars.

Source: Infobae

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