The case of uploading one form of product through pointing out some other form of product isn’t new. Many such boxes of false declaration had been stuck at Chittagong port. Many importers don’t redeem the products because of more than a few causes. The ones boxes are mendacity within the port. Customs are apathetic to do so although those boxes are ‘decomposable and perishable’ and feature been mendacity there for a very long time.
As in step with laws, the products imported in the course of the port must be cleared inside 30 days through paying the prescribed rate if there is not any case. If now not, it is thought of as auctioned and perishable.
In line with port information, the collection of auctioned and decomposable boxes as of December 20 was once 9,972 TEUS (20-foot identical). There are multiple lakh metric lots of goods within those boxes. But even so, 3 thousand 560 lots of LCL and 5 thousand 443 lots of bulk shipment (open items) are mendacity in more than a few sheds of the port for a very long time. This contains boxes and merchandise which can be between one month and twenty years previous.
8 years mendacity ‘fabricated from false declaration’
‘Henan Anhui Agro LC’ is an uploading corporate in Khilkhet house of capital Dhaka. In 2017, Capital Equipment introduced that they imported 144 programs of goods from China in a single container. The importer’s consultant, C&F agent Rabeya & Sons of Dhanialapara DT Street house of Chittagong, submitted the Invoice of Access to Customs’ Assyakuda Global Device on February 28 that yr. whose quantity is 291421.
Customs locked Asycuda Global to droop clearance of products because of suspected presence of suspicious items. However it’s questionable why the lock was once now not opened for 8 years, nor why the public sale was once now not taken on the scheduled time. – Chittagong Customs C&F Agent Affiliation Normal Secretary Kazi Mahmud Imam Bilu.
Customs intelligence and AIR locked the clearance means of the consignment at the similar day on suspicion of uploading unlawful items. Later the importer didn’t redeem those merchandise. Customs didn’t take the initiative to open the lock even after 8 lengthy years. Customs didn’t need to know from the importer or the C&F agent why the products don’t seem to be being redeemed. The transport agent additionally didn’t observe why the container was once now not being unloaded.
After the autumn of Sheikh Hasina’s govt on August 5 this yr, Brigadier Normal (retd.), marketing consultant to the period in-between govt. M Sakhawat Hossain came visiting and expressed his dissatisfaction with the container jam on the port. On this, he directed the Nationwide Board of Income Chairman to briefly take away the boxes mendacity within the port for a very long time. If now not, ask the port chairman to public sale those boxes.
Quickly after this the NBR shaped a job drive to stock the imported items mendacity on the port for a very long time with a purpose to auctioning and destruction actions. A job drive consisting of NBR, Customs, Customs Intelligence and AIR officers began product stock of boxes of auctionable items at Chittagong port.
8 years in the past the locked importer, Henan Anhui Agro LC, discovered undeclared items whilst inventorying the container. The importer broadcasts Capital Equipment of Poultry Feed at the bill. However bodily exam on Monday discovered LED TV and Benson cigarettes within the container.
Investigation printed that only one week after the cargo was once locked, the Customs Intelligence and Investigation Division carried out a raid on March 5 and six, 2017 and seized 12 boxes of poultry feed declared as Capital Equipment of the similar importer. After that, the customs officers discovered a big amount of international cigarettes, LED TV, photocopy gadget and liquor within the boxes after doing hundred % bodily exam. In that incident, customs gained data of 140 crores of smuggling in opposition to two firms named ‘Henan Anhui Agro LC’ and ‘Agro BD & JP’.
It might were inventoried previous. Then again, the transport agent representing the landlord of the container by no means sought after to grasp concerning the liberate of the container. Coordinated efforts of all are had to decongest the port.- Saidul Islam, Deputy Commissioner of Chittagong Customs.
Chatting with customs officers, it’s recognized that the landlord of 2 non-existent firms ‘Henan Anhui Agro LC’ and ‘Agro BD & JP’ is an individual named Abdul Motaleb. He was once additionally arrested on June 20, 2021. There could also be a cash laundering case in opposition to him.
Questions were raised about Customs’ indifference to the container opened for stock on Monday after understanding such a lot.
Chittagong Customs C&F Agent Affiliation Normal Secretary Kazi Mahmud Imam Bilu instructed Jago Information, ‘Customs is operating to scale back the container jam on the port. Within the period in-between, it has began the method of auctioning and destroying the products of the boxes stuffed with imported items mendacity for a very long time.
About receiving falsely declared items in a consignment locked 8 years in the past, he mentioned, ‘Customs locked Assycuda Global to droop the consignment clearance procedure because of suspicion of suspicious items. However why measures weren’t taken to open the lock for 8 years, or why measures weren’t taken to public sale on the appointed time is questionable.
Now not simplest the products imported beneath the title of ‘Henan Anhui Agro LC’, however on December 22, when some other consignment was once being taken stock for auctioning, customs discovered falsely declared items in a consignment imported 5 years in the past. In line with customs data, the uploading company of Topkhana Street, Rajdhain Dhaka imported 3 boxes of products beneath the declaration of Lotus Surgical Wheel Chair. However because of now not being redeemed for a very long time, the customs public sale crew went to stock on December 22 and located bricks and 39 wheelchairs in two of the 3 boxes. While the importer introduced the product for redemption in April 2019 at Assykuda Global. The cargo is alleged to be imported from Guangdong Crusing Industry Workforce in Guangdong, China. Then again, the customs officers declare that the importer has smuggled cash through bringing bricks whilst pointing out the import of wheelchairs.
Every other identical incident came about on September 5 final yr. Audit Investigation and Analysis (AIR) Department of Chittagong Customs seized a liquor consignment after mendacity within the port for 9 months. Sooner than this incident, at the night time of September 4, the drive saved down the container declared as materials on the CCT backyard of Chittagong port. After that AIR crew finished 100% bodily take a look at. After the bodily exam on Thursday morning, it was once reported that 1,114 cartons of international liquor of various manufacturers had been recovered within the 20 ft container. 11 thousand 676 liters of liquor of eleven manufacturers are to be had. On 18 December 2023, the consignment was once declared as Materials and the Invoice of Access was once submitted to Customs’ Asycuda Global Device.
In terms of clearance of imported items, even 5% of the amount of products cleared through the customs can’t be checked manually. Customized does now not have such manpower or logistic toughen. The remainder 95 % of the products are cleared in step with customs laws. The folks of evil circles take the chance right here.- Further Commissioner of Chittagong Customs, Mohammad Tafsir Uddin Bhunya.
Saidul Islam, Deputy Commissioner of Chittagong Customs, instructed Jago Information, ‘The cargo of suspicious items was once locked through Customs. Importer may now not redeem the consignment because of locking. As they’ve now not been redeemed for a very long time, we have now began stock to public sale those merchandise. This proves the false declaration.’
“It might were accomplished previous,” he mentioned about taking stock 8 years after the lockdown. Then again, the transport agent representing the landlord of the container by no means sought after to grasp concerning the liberate of the container. A concerted effort through all is had to decongest the port.’
Port Secretary Omar Farooq instructed Jago Information concerning the entanglement of the container, ‘After 30 days of the container wearing imported items arriving on the Chittagong port, we give the removing record to the customs. The removing lists are up to date each month. Now the customs authority can inform why those boxes are mendacity for a very long time or why they don’t take steps to redeem or public sale the products.
Further Commissioner of Chittagong Customs Mohammad Tafsir Uddin Bhunya instructed Jago Information, ‘Customs can’t manually take a look at even 5 % of the volume of products which can be cleared in terms of clearing imported items. Customized does now not have such manpower or logistic toughen. The remainder 95 % of the products are cleared in step with customs laws. That is the place the vicious folks take benefit.’
He mentioned, ‘Customs has a number of wings to stop importation on fraudulent or false declarations. Amongst them, AIR works to stop the import of goods beneath possibility control beneath false declaration.
This reliable additionally mentioned, ‘Customs all the time works with eyes and ears open to stop the import or export of products through false declaration. There are some exceptions to this. Now falsely declared merchandise are discovered some of the non-cleared merchandise imported 8-10 years in the past. Principally because of the potency and vigilance of customs, the importers may now not redeem the products introduced beneath false declaration. Now the problem of false declaration is being stuck whilst taking stock for removing of boxes. Those that are considering those circles will have to be introduced beneath the regulation.’
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