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The customs authorities
estimated the cargo could
be worth approximately
$22,629.
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photo.
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Border
police detain suspect
in $22,000 tax evasion
By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
Border police officers from La Cruz*,
near the border with Nicaragua,
arrested a Nicaraguan man,
surname García, for alleged tax
evasion.
According to the police report,
officers stopped a truck driven
by García
during a routine patrol.
During inspection of the truck,
the officers said they saw that
there was a lot of merchandise,
so they asked the man for the
import documents or merchandise
invoices he should have shown
when he passed through customs
at the border.
"García
had a document which presented
some irregularities and when
comparing the quantities of the
billed products with what he was
transporting, the figures did
not match," said police in a
report.
The document presented by the
suspect listed only 400 pairs of
shoes, but the final count
showed that he had more than 891
pairs of shoes, 270 ceramic
items, 60 chairs, 12 rocking
chairs and 36 marimbas among
others, the police report said.
The marimba is a percussion
instrument consisting of a set
of wooden bars struck with
mallets to produce musical
tones. This is a traditional
instrument in rural areas along
the Pacific coast.
According to the police report,
these articles had not been
reported to the tax authorities
or customs.
The customs authorities
estimated the cargo could be
worth approximately $22,629.
García
was detained and taken to the
Public Ministry where he will
have to pay import duties to the
recover the merchandise.
In other news involving
contraband products, police
seized more than 5,000 liquor
units in Limón Wednesday, as
A.M. Costa Rica reported.
According to a police report,
the officers responded to a
confidential call about a truck
that was transporting contraband
liquor. The officers proceeded
with the traffic control
procedure where they found the
truck carrying the liquor.
"The seized merchandise was
transferred to a tax warehouse
for customs officers to carry
out the valuation of the taxes
not paid," the police said in
its statement.
The name of the truck driver who
has to face an official complain
as a suspect of smuggling
products was not released by the
police.
"We will continue to increase
the control efforts we have been
carrying out to fight against
contraband," said Irving
Malespín, director of the Fiscal
Police. "In this work, citizen
support is very important, so we
maintain the call to the people
to continue reporting any
suspicious to the telephone
number 2539-6800. "
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