18th Parliamentary Intelligence-Security Forum – Free Trade Zones And Transnational Crime

Vides defined illicit commerce as contraband, customs fraud, piracy corruption, and bribery. He then later went on saying that 244 tons of undeclared substances were seized in April 2021 alone.

He then said that falsification of documents was a popular method by under/over invoicing mostly by the agricultural sector. More specifically, financial behavior doesn’t match with declarations in terms of sales volume, net asset, payroll, exonerations, inventory, and fiscal evasion.