Global Courant 2023-05-13 09:12:01
Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
Accusing them of defrauding the State for more than 50 million lempiras, Faust Calixexecutive director of the Honduran Customs Administrationdenounced 14 former employees of this administration yesterday.
The alleged acts of corruption that he attributes to them occurred because there has been collusion between customs personnel and importers, he asserted.
The acts of corruption are associated with goods that were dispatched from six customs offices in the country, where the customs personnel accepted the figure that the importer stipulated to pay the taxes, evidencing a serious act of corruption.
“We are talking about a fraud that exceeds 50 million lempiras, data that was extracted from the Honduran Automated Customs Revenue System (Sarah), after checking more than a thousand Central American Single Declaration (Duca),” said Cálix before entering the office. the facilities of the Public Ministry.
“There are enough elements and indications for the Public Ministry to investigate and classify a crime in the criminal order.”