Illegal trade: Jade, electronics, industrial materials and vehicles seized

An effective action is being taken to prevent illegal trade under the law supervised by the Illegal Trade Eradication Steering Committee.

On 1st February, the on-duty team under the supervision of the Customs Department captured three goods including 3,834 litres of Aqua engine oil that were different in the Import Declaration (ID) from a container at the Asia World Port Terminal container checkpoint, three goods including 60 electronic bulbs (200W) that were not declared in the Import Declaration (ID) from a container at the Myanmar Industrial Port Terminal container checkpoint, four goods include 5 pairs of seal kits without Import License at the Yangon International Airport (Import Counter) and 12 goods include 33 anaesthetic trolleys with drawers that were not declared in the Import Declaration (ID) at the Hteedan container checkpoint.

On 2nd February, an on-duty team at the Yepu permanent checkpoint in Shan State seized 680 kilogrammes of raw jade, 650 kilogrammes of jade beads and three kinds of jade jewellery from a Mitsubishi Fuso car heading to Muse from Mandalay.

On 3 February, an inspection team from Tabayin Myoma Police Station captured an unregistered Honda Click-125 motorbike in Phayahtyawt village in Tabayin Township and a combined team seized an unregistered Toyota Mark II car at the Sagaing Township entrance combined checkpoint.

Therefore, eight arrests (at an estimated value of 306.312 million Kyats) were made on three consecutive days from 1 to 3 February, according to the Illegal Trade Eradication Steering Committee.