This last Tuesday Customs personnel in Clorinda found four human skulls in a suitcase, part of the luggage of a passenger on a long-distance bus traveling from Paraguay to Buenos Aires. The woman, a native of Venezuela, had an Argentine DNI and a declared address in Hurlingham, she receives various social plans and an unemployment benefit according to her records. Until 2021 she had been employed by a firm dedicated to cleaning buildings.
The bus from Nueva Empresa Godoy was detained to rigorous control while crossing the San Ignacio de Loyola International Bridge to enter Argentina. At that moment, the baggage scanner showed the silhouettes of the remains. Thus, the physical control of the luggage was carried out. Concealed among his personal belongings were the four complete human skulls, including maxillae and dentures.
When questioned by specialized agents of the General Directorate of Customs-AFIP, the owner stated, unusually, that the skulls would later be sent to the United States, where they would be subjected to scientific studies. He argued that professionals tended to choose these types of skulls for “to be complete and to have European ancestors”. The hypotheses are multiple: the skulls could be used in religious rituals, or end up in collections.
The case was not prosecuted, official sources confirm to Infobae. In principle, it was framed as an infraction of Law No. 22415, the Customs Code.
Moving human remains is a gray area. The Foreign Ministry establishes a series of permits. You must have a death certificate, certification that the person did not suffer from contagious diseases, issued by the local health authority and a certificate from the funeral home stating that the body has been prepared in accordance with regulations of international transport and placed in a hermetically sealed metal container, and the latter placed in another container suitable for transport. The funeral home certificate must be notarized. The City of Buenos Aires also has its own protocol.
Here, the skulls had no paper.
It is not the only striking finding of Customs in recent times. popper seizures –a dangerous drug used at sex parties– increased in recent months, with bottles hidden in the bags of passengers arriving from Europe or the United States, as well as parcels. So far this year, according to official data accessed by this medium, Customs seized 289 bottles. In 2021, another 390 had been seized, in 2020 about 223. The trend is clearly increasing.
In mid-September, a man from Buenos Aires landed in Ezeiza aboard flight number UX 041, operated by the company Air Europa. Customs scanned their bags, a rigorous procedure. they found him 12 bottles of popper, a liquid euphoria from the nitrite chemical family which is inhaled for a powerful high, usually during sexual encounters. The substance was seized, in a procedure in charge of the Economic Criminal Court No. 8 of Gustavo Meirovich. The man was not arrested, but was subject to a criminal investigation.
At the end of August, L., a 63-year-old man, businessmanpresident according to the Official Gazette of a firm dedicated in the papers to animal husbandry and egg production, was detained in the primary customs zone of the Ezeiza airport also by Customs, after returning from New York on an American Airlines flight. After scanning your checked baggage, They discovered that he had 40 bottles of poppers in his suitcase.. In Spain, for example, they are from a virtual free sale: each one averages 20 euros.
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