A SH MOTORBIKE SMUGGLED IN A CONTAINER IN TRANSIT

VCN –  on the morning of April 5, 2017, the Cai Mep port border gate Customs Sub-Department collaborated with Customs Control Team under the Ba Ria – Vung Tau Customs Department to conduct an actual inspection for a container in transit and discovered many smuggled and banned items including 01 used Honda SH 150i motorbike. 

The SH150i motorbike was hidden in the center of container and surrounded by other commodities such as beer, milk, acoustic audio speakers and supplementary food

Earlier, on April 3, 2017, Madame Anime Inc Co., Ltd submitted to the sub-Department a dossier of goods in transit and Customs declaration on 100% new consumer goods, which will be exported through the Hoa Lu international border gate, Binh Phuoc province

Through examining dossier and checking with commodities declared on the E-manifest and collecting information, the Customs officers discovered that the commodities declared were unclear and insufficient; and the items on the Customs declaration were missing such as: name of the ship, date of arrival, container number, seal number and carrier. It was suspected that there was fraud in commodities, the Customs officers asked for a physical inspection

On the morning of April 5, 2017, the Cai Mep port border gate Customs Sub-Department collaborated with the Customs Control Team to inspect and detect that there were a lot of used goods such as: acoustic audio speakers, amplifiers, music disc, beverage, beer and milk. Especially, there was 01 Honda SH 150i hidden in the center of the container.

The Cai Mep port border gate Customs Sub-Department has still unloaded the commodities to inspect and handle.

An old disc player almost discarded

Old amplifiers

Foreign beer

Supplementary food

Old music discs

The SH 150i unloaded

By Dang Nguyen/ Huyen Trang

Source: http://customsnews.vn/