The organization led by Guillermo Michel accessed data through an agreement with the US TTU and seeks a minimum fine of 7 million dollars for the improper flight of currency and the presentation of false documents. The supplier firm, based in the US, has ties to the Argentine subsidiary: both belong to the "Aristocrat Leisure Limited" group, based in Australia.
A Customs intelligence work detected numerous irregularities in an importation of slot machines carried out by ARISTOCRAT ARGENTINA PTY LIM., which would have submitted adulterated documentation to the customs service. The operation declared by it consisted of 96 machines entered for a total value of USD 931,680.
However, the agreement of the General Directorate of Customs with the US Trade and Transparency Unit (TTU) allowed it to access the information declared by the company that supplied the machines, ARISTOCRAT TECHNOLOGIES, INC., when they left the country. North American.
Indeed, the agency verified that the real value of the operation was barely USD 520,870: the difference, USD 410,810, represents an overbilling of approximately 80%. It even found that 86 machines had been declared out of export, instead of the 96 registered in Argentina.
Within this framework, the complaint presented by the body directed by Guillermo Michel is already being processed in the National Economic Criminal Court No. 4, in charge of Dr. Alejandro Catania. Customs seeks a minimum fine of USD 7,005,300.60
It should be noted that the Argentine company and the American company belong to the same economic group —the former recognized the commercial link in the documentation presented but claimed that this relationship did not influence the price of the merchandise. Specifically, both firms belong to the "Aristocrat Leisure Limited" group, based in Sydney, Australia.
In this way, specialized agents of the General Directorate of Customs-AFIP understand that they have gathered enough elements to prove, by ARISTROCRAT ARGENTINA PTY LIM., a ruse with the objective of removing foreign currency from the country improperly, with the considerable damage that assumes in the current economic situation.
