{"id":478,"date":"2022-10-07T09:44:37","date_gmt":"2022-10-07T09:44:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/?p=478"},"modified":"2022-10-07T09:44:38","modified_gmt":"2022-10-07T09:44:38","slug":"illegal-teak-foodstuffs-consumer-goods-and-vehicles-confiscated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/?p=478","title":{"rendered":"Illegal teak, foodstuffs, consumer goods and vehicles confiscated"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>7 October 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SUPERVISED by the Anti-Illegal Trade Steering Committee, effective action is being taken to prevent illegal trade under the law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An <a><\/a>on-duty team led by the Bago Township Customs Department under the supervision of the Bago Region Anti-Illegal Trade Task Force made inspections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Officials confiscated 170 old electric bicycles worth K10.2 million that were not declared in the Import Declaration (ID) from a Nissan Diesel car (estimated value of K30 million) heading from Myawady to Yangon near the Phayagyi Shwethanlwin Tollgate on 4 October. The action was taken under the Customs Procedures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On 6 October, a combined inspection team seized a total of 3.8340 tonnes of illegal teak worth K543,360 in Yedashe township of Toungoo district. The action was taken under the Forest Law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Afterwards, on 4 October, a combined team under the Ayeyawady Region Anti-Illegal Trade Task Force captured an unregistered Toyota Wish car (approximately K10 million) at the Myatto junction on the Pathein-Monywa Road in Pathein township. The action was taken under the Export and Import Law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition, the Hteedan Container Checkpoint nabbed K37.8 million worth of bicycle parts that exceeded the Import Declaration (ID) from a container on 5 October. The action was taken under the Customs Procedures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Similarly, at the Mayanchaung Permanent Checkpoint in Mon State captured 720 litres of edible oil worth K2.4 million that were not declared in the Import Declaration (ID) from a Nissan Diesel truck (approximately K40 million) heading from Myawady to Yangon. The action was taken under the Customs Procedures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On 5 and 6 October, a combined inspection team confiscated 2,460 litres of edible oil worth K5.15 million without official documents in Myawady township and 65 cartons of apples worth K1.95 million without official documents from a vehicle at the Kawkareik (Tadakyoe) Combined Checkpoint. The action was taken under the Customs Procedures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Therefore, ten arrests estimated at K138,043,360 were made on three consecutive days from 4 to 6 October, according to the Anti-Illegal Trade Steering Committee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>7 October 2022 SUPERVISED by the Anti-Illegal Trade Steering Committee, effective action is being taken to prevent illegal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":479,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=478"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":480,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478\/revisions\/480"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}