Accumulated tax evasion between 2011 and 2016, just due to cigarette smuggling in Brazil, is R $ 30,2 billion. Officials and experts will debate, next Tuesday, more efficient ways to combat these types of crimes. The meeting will take place in the auditorium of Correio Braziliense, in the seminar “The Brazil we want: united by the end of smuggling and criminality”. The presence of the Minister of Justice and Public Security, Torquato Jardim, has already been confirmed; Deputy Efraim Filho (DEM / PB), president of the Mixed Parliamentary Front to Combat Smuggling; in Edson Vismona, coordinator of the Movement in Defense of the Legal Market; Mauri Cönig, journalist and director of the Brazilian Association of Investigative Journalism; and João Augusto Nardes, Minister of the Federal Court of Accounts (TCU).

“We are offering the government an alternative to improve revenue without increasing taxes. Smuggling is a harmful crime for society because it deteriorates the formal labor market, finances drug trafficking and harms the business environment, ”said Edson Vismona, president of ETCO. "It is imperative that the government is more rigorous in order to combat tax evasion." In his view, all smuggling resources finance organized crime. "We advocate the adoption of systemic and systematic actions to integrate forces that operate on the country's borders to curb criminal activities," he said. The idea is to promote an integrated action of the Federal, Federal Highway, Military and Civil police with the Federal Revenue and the Armed Forces. “They (bandits) do not act in isolated actions, they are highly complex crimes and sophisticated organizations. We will only be able to combat smuggling and piracy with an integrated action, to optimize public resources and seek results. The difficult thing is to put this into practice ”, he warned. Some counterfeits do not go through customs because they are made in Brazil. The alert occurred during the HP Anti-Piracy Forum, held in Brasilia. HP Investigations Director Paulo Lino, who worked for the PF in the fight against organized crime, said that 7% of world trade today is pirated products. "Piracy involves corruption, and public agencies are the biggest buyers of pirated ink and toner," he said. According to Lino, 90% of the counterfeit HP products seized are produced in the country. He explained that the biggest buyers are public agencies, because fake products are cheaper, and the criterion is to buy at the lowest value.

When: 15/08/2017. from 9am to 11:30 am

Where: Auditório do Correio Braziliense (Printing Industry Sector (SIG), Quadra 2, Number 340

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