The recipe launched this Friday (19) to “Operation Carbon Chain”, against irregularities in importing and marketing fuels.
The objective is to dismantle criminal organizations specializing in the interposition fraudulent – Expedient used to hide the real importers and the origin of the financial resources of the operations.
The actions focus on companies that, although they have little or no operational structure and compatible financial capacity, formally emerge as importers of cargo evaluated in hundreds of millions of reais.
The operation took place in cinco States: Alagoas, Paraíba, Amapá, Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo. The measures occurred simultaneously, in 11 distinct targets, to evaluate the structure and operational capacity of companies, collect documents, gather testimonials and verify requirements for federal and state tax benefits.
Investigations point out possible involvement of oranges, criminal organizations and large business groups, which use complex contractual chains to hide the true responsible and the financial flows of operations.
With suspicions of irregularities, loads are being carried out in different locations in the country, including fuels to be discharged from ships in ports of Rio de Janeiro and deposits and storage terminals in Sao Paulo and other states.
To date, the load of two ships was retained to Rio de Janeiro in the amount of approximately R $ 240 million, oil, fuels and hydrocarbons, including oil condensed oil.
Thus, in the coming days, revenue should publish a normative instruction reinforcing rules of control and inspection of fuel imports and hydrocarbons. The measure, according to the agency, is elaborated in dialogue with the sector and seeks to “definitely prevent the repetition of this type of fraudulent expedient”.
