This week the Police of Fiscal Control (PCF) and the Ministry of Health confiscated 48,203 units of cosmetic products from an importing company located in Zapote, for not having the permits. This is part of the actions of the Ministry of Finance to fight against tax evasion and improve tax collection.
A citizen complaint prompted the Treasury and Health Ministry to conduct an investigation, which allowed to verify that the goods did not have the support of definitive importation and that a large part of them had expired health records.
The confiscated products have different brands, such as Tec Italy, Paul Michell, TIGI, Rusk and Johnny B.
According to Irving Malespín, director of the PCF, 22,946 units of these products will be made available to the customs authorities for their respective valuation, tax collection and product disposal. The remaining 21,631 were made available to the Ministry of Health for immediate destruction.
As a result of several operations carried out by the PCF last week in different parts of the country, they also seized five thousand units of alcoholic beverages, two thousand units of dyes and about 15 thousand tea units that were smuggled into the country.