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General News on Friday, June 7, 2019
Source: Graphic.com.gh
2019-06-07
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The Tema command of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) customs division is investigating the circumstances in which about 20 20-foot canned tomato containers disappeared from the port during the transfer of the gazette.
The containers, numbered TCLU 7286827, TCLU 7354576, TRHU1088166, TRHU268169, CMAU1425730, among other insignia, were escorted from the Tema Container Terminal (TCT) premises to the Atlas Terminal, near the Tema Oil Refinery, to officials of the Tema Oil Terminal. Customs division and national security officers in the port on May 30, 2019, while they would have been hijacked.
The other persons belonging to the CMA CGM shipping company and bearing the numbers BMOU2359542, TEMU2402072, XINU2001487 and TCLU530206, who arrived at the port in September 2018, have spent too much time, resulting in the confiscation of its contents by the State. processing and auction.
The information collected by the Daily Graphic indicated that the shipment was labeled "Nhyira Tin Tomates" and that it was on the list of unloaded cargoes as having exceeded the 261-day customs clearance period. This is the reason why it was decided to transfer the containers to the destination site. Atlas Terminal for authentication and publication in the newspaper.
This was to auction the lot to cover an import income of about 714 000 GH ¢.
surveys
Sources at the port told the Daily Graphic that the containers, which had since been in Kumasi, had been processed on behalf of Oslo Shipping by a reputable forwarder, Mr Alex Brako, an accusation he denied since.
Correspondence of the officer in charge of the State Warehouse at the Golden Jubilee Terminal addressed to the Customs Area Commander and copy to the Chief Revenue Officer of the TCT, l & # 39; chief revenue officer in charge of prevention, the national security officer at the port, among other relevant stakeholders, on May 28, 2019, detailed the processes of container transfer, including the issuance of 39; a bill of lading to cover the processes.
Some officers of the customs division of the GRA, including the escort officer, a certain Alex Frimpong, were interrogated by the Maritime Police Unit of the Port of Tema as a result of l & # 39; incident.
"An officer who was supposed to escort the vehicles transferring the containers from the storage terminal to the examination center (Atlas) was forced to make a statement and we think this action might not be the last. We want to continue our research to identify the collaborators of the diversion system, "said a member of the management of the Customs Division at the Daily Graphic.
For his part, Dr. Godfred Okoh-Appiah, Assistant Commissioner of Customs Tema sector, said that the command was working on the recovery of Kumasi containers to conduct a review of the lot.
The implications
The deputy commissioner in charge of prevention, Alhaji Iddrisu, said the diversion of containers, in addition to causing a loss of revenue for the state, also had security implications for the country "because such acts do not provide the opportunity for the goods examined to detect contraband. and restricted goods that may affect safety or health ".
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