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Customs Officer busted with car load of smuggled liquor

Jan 15, 2009 News

Authorities of the Customs and Trade Administration of the Guyana Revenue Authority have busted one of their officers who was found transporting a car load of smuggled liquor.
The officer, who was stationed in New Amsterdam, Berbice, was held on Monday night just after he left Crabwood Creek with the uncustomed goods.
He is currently in custody pending charges.
Kaieteur News understands that the officer has been involved in, and has facilitated the smuggling of goods into Guyana from Suriname for quite a while and has been under surveillance.
According to a police source who had initially handled the matter, on Monday night, the officer in charge in Corentyne received information that a boat had left Suriname with a quantity of goods that was intended to be smuggled into Guyana.
As a result, a team of Customs and Patrol Officers was assembled from the area.
They were instructed to go to the Crabwood Creek area where smuggled goods are normally off-loaded.
While heading there, the officers said that they observed that they were being followed by several other vehicles, forcing them to briefly abort the mission since they were proceeding in a known Customs vehicle.
Two of the officers then joined a hire car and continued to the Line Path area where they carried out a surveillance operation.
A few hours later, the ranks on surveillance duty reported that they had observed the Customs Officer’s car heading towards the Customs and Trade Administration Office at Corriverton.
The Customs Officer was allowed to proceed to his intended destination but was intercepted on his way back by his colleagues, a senior official said.
A search of the trunk of his vehicle revealed six cases of Absolut Vodka and a case of Johnny Walker Whiskey.
At the time of his apprehension at around 21:00 hours on Monday, the officer was clad in his Customs uniform.
When questioned, the officer said that he had received the items from a well known smuggler in the Corentyne area.
He could not say if duty was paid on the items in his car.
The items were seized and the officer was placed into custody.
Sources at the Customs and Trade Administration told this newspaper that they had suspected the officer of facilitating smuggling operations and it was only a matter of time before he would have been caught red handed.

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