Chattogram Custom Home authorities at the moment (1 December) seized a container carrying foreign-tag cigarettes price Tk9 crore in refrained from earnings from the Chattogram port.
Md Rajib Hossain, assistant commissioner of Chattogram Custom Home, talked about, “The Audit, Investigation, and Be taught Unit of Customs intercepted the consignment and performed a physical examination on the port.
“It become as soon as stumbled on to have confidence 74 lakh cigarettes packed in 740 cartons, falsely declared as family items to evade taxes.”
The consignment become as soon as imported from Thailand below the name of Khyaati Leather Innovation BD Ltd, an organization essentially essentially based in the Ishwardi Export Processing Zone (EPZ).
The cigarette manufacturers incorporated LAMER Nano Silver, Nano Gray, Nano Blue, and Nano White.
The consignment’s dutiable label become as soon as assessed at Tk1.5 crore, with a earnings doable of roughly Tk9 crore.
Customs officials talked about that appropriate motion would be taken below the Customs Act to name and prosecute those interesting about the fraud.
When contacted, Khyaati Leather Innovation BD Ltd denied involvement in the cargo.
Rajesh Satyapal Uppal, director of the company, talked about, “We are an Indian-essentially essentially based company, and we have now no longer imported any merchandise in the final one and a half of years. We are nonetheless awaiting a bond license. Without it, we cannot import items. A gang has likely misused our company’s name for this consignment.”
Earlier, on 5 September, customs officials reported that they seized 11,676 liters of imported liquor that had been falsely declared as cloth.
Equally, on 27 June, they intercepted 5,00,000 cigarettes misdeclared as water purifier machines.
