At least 16 foreign citizens residing irregularly in the country were detected in an operation carried out by the Federal Investigations Department (DFI) of the Federal Police in the western area of the Greater Buenos Aires, where they also arrested four Bolivian nationals accused of managing businesses operating within a clandestine fair.
Police sources revealed that during this shopping outing, the PFA detected a violation of the Trademark Law and the sale of stolen cell phones.
The intervention took place in the locality of Villa Celina, La Matanza district, as part of a population control carried out by the Federal Police's Commissariat for Migration Affairs, at the request of the National Directorate of Migration (DNM).
Officials inspected various galleries, stalls set up on public roads, and commercial premises, proceeding to identify a total of 458 people, of which 369 were of foreign nationality.
To this end, public servants used the Morpho RAPID ID system (a portable biometric device for rapid person identification) and consulted the databases of the Federal Police Communications System (SIFCOP), the DNM, and the SASI system for querying and crossing biometric and alphanumeric data.
As a result of these verifications, it was found that 16 foreign citizens were residing irregularly in the Argentine Republic.
Consequently, the corresponding Migration Declarations were drawn up, in addition to three summary reports against the owners of commercial premises who had employees in an irregular migratory situation.
The “Argentine ICE” began: 16 illegal foreigners detected and four arrested in a clandestine fair.
During the operation, federal officials detected four businesses with various irregularities, as two of them violated Trademark Law No. 22,362, while in the other two, the sale of a significant number of cell phones blocked by ENACOM for having been reported as stolen was verified.
As a result of the procedure, 70 telephone devices were seized, along with 50 t-shirts, 226 pairs of sneakers, and 55 pants of counterfeit brands.
The Federal Criminal and Correctional Court No. 3 of Morón, presided over by Leonardo Cano, intervened, ordering the detention of the four involved (three women and one man of Bolivian nationality), who, along with the seized items, were placed at the disposal of the intervening magistrate.
