Federal Police arrest suspects who smuggled Anatel stamps to China

The Federal Police arrested five people traveling to China via São Paulo International Airport in Guarulhos. The suspects’ luggage A pack of stamps from the National Telecommunications Corporation (Anatel).

according to Save the newspaperThe flight was to Shanghai. They were intercepted “Thousands of stamps” for original certification, Including serial number and embossing.

According to the report, the approved printing company that Anatel was responsible for printing confirmed that it sold the stamps to the “company.”A company also approved in the capital of São Paulo“But I assured you that”All work was carried out in an orderly manner“.

What are the uses of Anatel seals?

According to investigations, the suspects would seal electronic devices that would enter Brazil with fake Anatel approval documents.

In this way they can be sold in the country and yet will be exempt from taxes and procedures such as security testsThese are necessary to identify issues such as radiation emissions from the device.

A recent survey by the Brazilian Association of the Electrical and Electronics Industry (Abinee) revealed that 25% of the national mobile phone market is made up of irregularly purchased devices.

In other words, one in four devicesgrey market” is purchased from marketplaces or electronics stores that are not official brand representatives.

Anatel has increasingly fought the sale of these devices, which it describes as unregulated, and digital retailers such as Amazon and Mercado Livre have even been ordered to remove advertising on them in recent months, in a campaign that has gone all the way to court.