Confiscated illegal items: Teak, industrial materials, foodstuffs, consumer goods and vehicles

 

DURING inspections on 1 December, customs on-duty teams supervised by the Customs Department impounded two kinds of goods worth K36.71 million, including a National icemaker and refrigerator and 480 bottles of Sapporo Japan beer that were not declared in the Import Declaration (ID) from a container, 18 types of goods valued at K77,771,500 including 100 sets of capacitor start motors that were not declared in the ID and two kinds of goods worth K15 million including 150 electric rice cookers that were different from ID from a container at the Asia World Port Terminal container checkpoint and a Higer express (approximately K30 million), travelling from Myeik to Yangon, ten types of goods valued at K2.017 million including 200 kilogrammes of Aikoni motor oil without official documents. The action was taken under Customs procedures.

The combined team seized seven types of goods valued at K129.704 million, including 1,300 jerrycans of One Shrimp brand (18 litres each) and 200 bottles of Two Shrimp brand (five litres each) without official documents at the Mibamyitta convenience store near Shwegyin Tollgate on Madaya-Mandalay Road on 1 December. The action was conducted under Customs procedures.

On the same day, the combined team captured a Mitsubishi Fuso tractor head with a trailer (estimated value of K90 million), heading to Yangon from Myawady, carrying 1,920 pieces of Waistcoat worth K4.8 million that were not declared in the ID at the Ywathagyi Dry Port. These actions were taken under Customs procedures.

On 2 December, combined teams nabbed a total of 11.212 tonnes of illegal teak worth K3,644,704 in Bago district and a Mitsubishi Canter (estimated value of K20 million), heading to Yangon from Mawlamyine, carrying three kinds of goods worth K1.25 million including 90 lady’s purses without official documents at the Nyaungkhashay x-ray station. The action was taken under the Forest Law and Customs procedures.

A total of 17 arrests were made on 1 and 2 December, with an estimated value of K410,897,204, as reported by the Illegal Trade Eradication Steering Committee.

MNA/MKKS

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