The Provincial Prosecutor’s Office Specialized in Customs Crimes and against Intellectual Property of Callao raided the offices of the Sunat Maritime Customs Intendancy.
Prosecutors entered the offices of the Warehouses, Imports and Temporary Regimes divisions and seized four computers and documentation relevant to the case.
Provincial prosecutor Lucía Lizana Segama explained thatthe diligence was carried out as part of the investigation against four Intendancy officials who, together with other people, would have committed the crime of fraud of customs revenue and traffic of restricted merchandise, with the aggravating circumstance of belonging to an alleged criminal organization.
According to the tax thesis, officials would have put at the service of the criminal network a set of powers and attributions (customs authority) assigned to the customs administration to control the entry, permanencetransfer and departure of goods from the country, in order to evade taxes on imports.
One of the main acts of fraud would have been committed in 2020, during the first months of the health emergency due to COVID-19, when the public servants agreed with the other members of the criminal network to import infrared thermometers, shoes and an electrical transformer from China.
It should be noted that the investigation against this alleged criminal organization dedicated to customs crimes is formalized before the Judiciary.