Four people arrested for bringing bolivars into Spain

Agents from the Judicial Police Team, stationed at the Fiscal and Border Unit of Adolfo Suárez Madrid-Barajas Airport, have managed to intercept a batch containing more than one million Venezuelan bolivars, of which only 80,000 banknotes had been declared, the Civil Guard reported in a statement.

Studies carried out by Civil Guard specialists enabled them to locate this commercial consignment in April, which came from Colombia and was declared to contain numismatic banknotes.

After contacting the Venezuelan authorities, it was found that this type of export is not authorized by the Central Bank of Venezuela, This is a completely irregular importIt also turned out that the documentation supporting the merchandise to justify its acquisition in the South American country was falsified.

How would they make money from trafficking in bolivars?

The surveillances established They allowed us to discover that the network was made up of four people, some belonging to the same family. and that the main defendant has a numismatic business in Valencia.

According to the investigations, once the money was in Madrid, one of the suspects would travel to the capital and take the goods to Valencia in a rented van. They would hide the money in a house in a town near Valencia until the goods were checked by the main suspect.

In order to make a profit from currency trafficking, those already arrested declared a much smaller number of banknotes, in order to pay a tiny amount at the customs office of their destination. In this case The exact number of bills is 1,080,000, which would be equivalent to 5,816,175,000 bolivars, having declared only 80,000 bills..

Following an exhaustive count and with the report from the Tax Agency authorities confirming suspicions that a smuggling offence was being committed, three men and one woman were arrested and have now been brought before the competent Judicial Authority.