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Montevideo, November 22nd 2024 - 09:45 UTC

Tag: smugglers

  • Thursday, September 1st 2022 - 09:46 UTC

    Tire-smuggling on the rise in northeast Argentina

    Local manufacturers will go on strike Thursday and Friday to add to the shortage of the product nationwide

    An increase in the smuggling of tires from Paraguay and Brazil has been reported in Argentina's northwestern provinces as the product is in short supply locally, which has also caused a spike in retail prices.

  • Wednesday, September 25th 2019 - 09:40 UTC

    Fort Lauderdale Customs and Border Patrol catch Venezuelan smugglers of gold

    
“CBP officers observed loose rivets on the nose compartment of the airplane,” read the criminal complaint against the Venezuelans, filed in US district court

    Two Venezuelans have been charged in US federal court with allegedly smuggling US$5 million worth of gold bars into the United States in a private airplane. Jean Carlos Sanchez Rojas and Victor Fossi Grieco, who piloted the airplane, were arrested on Sep 20 at Florida's Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport after US Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) agents discovered the undeclared cargo in the airplane's nose.