Rafael Marín Mollinedo, director of the National Customs Agency of Mexico (ANAM), said that the greatest fiscal ‘huachicoleo’ coup in Coahuila was due to the fact that the company involved only declared 10 percent of the imported fuel from the United States.
“The last confiscation that was made because 129 tanking passed on a train, but had declared 10 percent of fuels,” he said within the framework of the 85th National Anniversary of Customs Agents.
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Each tank brought 120 thousand liters, but had declared 10,000 liters in the customs request, said Mexico’s foreign trade surveillance.
“All customs pediments are being followed up, which have been entering through each of the customs of the northern, south, maritime and aerial border,” said the representative of the Government of Claudia Sheinbaum.
On July 7, Omar García Harfuch, Secretary of Citizen Security and Protection, reported the biggest coup against the fiscal “huachicol” in the 9 months of the Sheinbaum government.
He indicated that 129 tanks and 15 million 480 thousand liters of fuels were secured.
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Marín Mollinedo said that companies involved in the fiscal “huachicol” record the importation of a chemical and change to many other tariff fractions to smuggle fuel from the United States to Mexico.
“We have been chasing this and we have achieved it with the support of the Electronic Customs Data Processing Center, which has 14 thousand surveillance cameras in customs,” he said.
“And from there we have watched everything that goes through customs and there we find that the railroads and trains passed, which brought the US smuggling fuel,” he added.
Currently, investigation folders are being integrated by several of the fuel seizures by boat, trains and pipes in different regions of Mexico, he said.
“Following that we arrive at the National Customs Agency of Mexico, we began to stop illegal practice and smuggling of fuel,” he said.
“Every day more fuel smuggling comes out, but more than 50 million liters of diesel in Tampico, Nuevo Laredo, Ciudad Juárez have been seized,” he said.
