Safaga Customs foils 3 attempts to smuggle customs to a quantity of electronic cigarettes
Safaga Customs Department, headed by Medhat Ragab Ahmed, General Manager of Safaga Customs, jointly with the Department of Criminal Investigation Department, managed to seize three customs attempts to smuggle a number of electronic cigarettes and their accessories, food supplements and contact lenses, in violation of the Pharmacy Law No. 127 of 1955 and Customs Law No. 66 Of 1963 and the Import and Export Law No. 118 of 1975 and its amendments, and the instructions issued in this regard.
In the first attempt, during the termination of the customs procedures on the goods from the port of Daba Saudi on the vessel Amana, the personal baggage certificate No. 6171 for the year 2019 was suspected in the name of the passenger. T. Q and loaded with the car number DT 893 / AD 643.
A total of 1490 electronic cigarettes, 6,000 electronic cigarettes and 223 lenses were found hidden inside 2 air conditioners and a personal luggage compartment.
In the second and third attempts, 47 packages of food supplements hidden inside the bags of two Egyptian passengers from Saudi Arabia were seized.
Was set up by the customs committee consisting of Tharwat Mahmud Noureddine, Mahmoud Youssef, Arafat Mohamed, Waleed Abdelmohsen, Mustafa Mahmoud, Amouri Mihoury, Hisham Awad, Mokhtar Tamer Fadel, Traffic Managers, Emad Hamdy, Tariff Officer, Mustafa Hashem, Tariff Manager, Shaaban Al Rayes. Legal Affairs, Mohamed Abdelhakim, Mohamed Abdel Nour, Hassan Eid, Customs Security, Customs evasion under the supervision of Hamdi Saber, director of the complex.
The compensations were LE 2 million, 488 thousand and 120 pounds. Medhat Ragab Ahmed, General Manager of Safaga Customs, decided to take the necessary legal measures, and to release 3 customs control records and reservations on seizures.
This comes in the implementation of the instructions of Mr. Kamal Najm, head of the Customs Authority to tighten control over all airports and customs outlets, and to thwart all attempts to evade customs.
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