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Comm Abd Rahim (left) and Comm Ayob Khan displaying the seized bottles of alcohol at a press conference on Wednesday. JOHOR BARU: Some 93 barrels of counterfeit liquor and 5,419 of bottles of untaxed alcohol were seized by the authorities here in a raid under Ops Contraband. Bukit Aman Internal Security and Public Order Department director Comm Datuk Seri Abd Rahim Jaafar said the raid was conducted on a shophouse at Taman Desa Idaman in Senai here at around 6.10am on Monday (May 10) following ...

Tax Evasion: Former SARS auditors now arrested for R321m fraud The Hawks investigation uncovered a tax evasion syndicate of tax payers, runners, SARS current and former employees and bank staff. The Johannesburg Hawks’ Serious Commercial Crime Investigation team has arrested two former South African Revenue Service (SARS) auditors who are facing tax evasion charges amounting to hundreds of millions of rands.  The former SARS auditors, Corah Madlepollo Kooko, 39, and Noluthando Sipokazi Mbang...

JOHOR BARU: Various tactics are being used by people attempting to cross state borders, says Bukit Aman Internal Security and Public Order Department director Comm Datuk Seri Abd Rahim Jaafar. “We understand the public’s sentiment. Some are upset as they have to be stuck for hours at police road blocks but we are just doing our part to break the chain of Covid-19. “We do not want people to get away with giving false reasons for crossing state borders. All kinds of tactics and methods have...

442 Ludhiana, May 10 The police have arrested two persons while three others were booked for illicit distillation and liquor smuggling in three raids, all of these conducted in areas falling under the Ladhowal police station on Sunday. Sandeep Singh, a resident of Bholewal Jadid village, and his accomplice Paramjit Singh of Razapur village, were booked under Sections 61, 1 and 14 of the Excise Act after a police party of anti-smuggling cell raided their hideout for distillation near the river b...

Penang customs seize smuggled ciggies worth over RM7 million 11 May 2021 / 19:13 H. Pix for representational purpose only. BUTTERWORTH: The Customs Department has thwarted attempts to smuggle in 9.65 million sticks of cigarettes worth RM7.08 million including unpaid tax in two raids in Port Klang, Selangor on May 5 and 7. Penang Customs director, Abdul Halim Ramli said a team from the department’s internal investigation unit and enforcement division carried out the first raid on a contai...

Share THE Senate Committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions is set for a collision course with the Colonel Hameed Ali (retd)-led Nigeria Customs Services (NCS) over the stance of the revenue-generating agency to rebuff the committee resolution asking it to return bags of rice seized from the Oja Oba market in Oyo State.  The Senate committee led by Senator Ayo Akinyelure after a meeting last week with the aggrieved market women and officers of the NCS led by Assistant Comptroller Gen...

224 Our Correspondent Tarn Taran, May 5 A joint team of the district police and the excise department on Wednesday raided two border-area villages. Under the operation, two working stills were seized and 760-kg lahan and 22,500-lt illicit liquor was recovered. Excise Officer (EO) Navjot Bharti said DSP Iqbal Singh, Excise Inspector Amrik Singh and Jatinder Singh headed the teams comprising of 32 employees from both the departments. Two accused were arrested and two of their associates were a...

6 May 2021, 7:07 PM  |  SABC  |  @SABCNews Image: SABC NewsThree people arrested by the Hawks for allegedly stealing food destined for aid in Malawi will appear in court next month. A woman and two men have been arrested for stealing over R5 million worth of food that was donated by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to the World Food Programme (WFP) for its humanitarian relie...

Food meant for the poor lost to fraud Three arrested for defrauding World Food Programme By TimesLIVE - 05 May 2021 Three people have been arrested for allegedly defrauding the World Food Programme. Stock photo. Image: 123RF/BELCHONOK The Johannesburg Hawks’ serious commercial crime investigation team has arrested three people for allegedly defrauding more than R5m worth of foodstuffs from the World Food Programme (WFP). The food had been donated by the US Agenc...

The Johannesburg Hawks’ Serious Commercial Crime Investigation team has arrested three Directors for allegedly defrauding over R5 million worth of foodstuffs that was donated by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to the World Food Programme (WFP) for its humanitarian relief. The supplies that included tons of refined vegetable oil and yellow split […]