Kenya Revenue Authority has intercepted two concealed high-end vehicles, a Range Rover Sport and a BMW X5, imported through the Port of Mombasa.
Daily Active Kenya has realized that the cartels compromise with KRA officials at the port during scanning of the cargo.
The import document are mostly forged to conceal the actual value of the import good.
For instance o,n February 27, 2019, KRA Customs officers received intelligence reports that the container had suspected stolen motor vehicles. KRA then requested the Kenya Ports Authority (KPA) to place the two containers on hold and subject them to scanning and verification at the Customs Warehouse.
Import documents indicated that the container was carrying one Mercedes Benz A180 and a BMW 125I Sport.
When the container was scanned on March 28, 2019, images revealed the shapes of the two high-end vehicles.
Upon 100 percent verification by a Multi-Agency Team on April 3, 2019, the container was found with one unit used Range Rover Sport HSE SDV6 and One unit used BMW X5.
The vehicles and the container were seized under the provisions of Sections 210 and 212 of East African Community Customs Management Act, 2004.
Last month KRA confiscated two vehicles- one belonging to Ms. Cynthia Wanjiru Gitonga wife to Embakasi MP George Theuri & another to Mr. John Mwangi.
The vehicles were declared semi-trailers hence evaded duty through an organized scheme that claims they were manufactured at a fictitious company.