Ghaddad/Nina/ The Federal Integrity Commission announced the arrest of those accused of promoting customs transactions in violation of the law, revealing discrepancies in the collection of revenue amounts at a number of customs ports, and seizing prohibited cars and containers prepared for smuggling in Basra.
The Commission stated in a statement: “The Basra Investigation Directorate in the Investigation Department of the Federal Integrity Commission arrested (4) defendants in the Southern Region Customs Directorate for promoting customs transactions without a legal basis, pointing to the revelation of differences between the revenues that were actually collected.” And what was entered in the records and accounting entries at the Safwan Customs Port, the Basra International Airport Customs, and the Umm Qasr Customs.”
She added: “The team seized (5) modern 2024 Toyota Camry cars at Umm Qasr Customs, which were entered as non-modern and used cars,” explaining that the inspection committee at the Customs had fixed that information to avoid paying the certificate of origin and invoice fees. And the examination certificate, in addition to the lack of a radiation detection certificate required for imports from Japan, and failure to conduct the examination in order to evade paying its fees, which led to a waste of public money. As for the Shalamcheh customs port, cars without the model were seized that were brought in for tourist purposes, after exceeding the period. “The legal requirements for its entry and the receipt of information about an attempt to register it after its entry into a number of governorates.”
She continued: “By moving to the Welcome Square Customs Center, an attempt to enter (38) containers containing goods prepared for smuggling that were not authorized to be entered was thwarted and seized, and the collusion of employees of the General Authority of Customs and the Border Ports Authority was monitored, and the non-receipt of container transactions until they are removed from the customs campus,” she noted. “There are companies specialized in smuggling goods with high fees, and manipulating fees by reducing the quantities of goods, stressing that the Customs Inspection Committee did not inspect the containers, but rather the ‘torrent’ of the exporting company was broken by the committee after passing the sonar transit stage.”
She pointed out: “A customs transaction was seized at the Umm Qasr Customs Center – the Great Welcome Square, due to the presence of irregularities in its completion, noting that the transaction belongs to a company that imported (9) containers loaded with (148) tons of iron, as the shipment was launched without The presence of an inspection certificate from standardization and quality control.”/End 7
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