Times Tower, the Kenya Revenue Authority's headquarters in Nairobi. FILE PHOTO | NMG
Sting operations against illicit trade by a multi-agency team
formed by President Uhuru Kenyatta last year helped recover Sh9 billion
in tax receipts in the year ended June 2019, Kenya Revenue
Authority has said.
Authority has said.
The team, led by deputy head of Public Service
Wanyama Musiambo, has been conducting operations since mid-last year,
seizing counterfeit, sub-standard and smuggled goods.
“KRA
participated in strategic operations as part of the multi-agency team
against illicit trade and contrabands,” KRA commissioner-general, Githii
Mburu says in annual revenue statement for financial year 2018-19.
“Through the initiative, interceptions were made including those of
high-end motor vehicles imported from the United Kingdom (UK).”
Some
12 top-of-the-range vehicles, which Kenya and UK border patrol teams
said were stolen from the UK, were siezed at the Port of Mombasa on June
8, this year, following an intelligence report as part of the
operations.
Seven other luxurious vehicles had been
netted between November 2018 and April this year in what KRA said
involved a syndicate which has been shipping in stolen high-end cars
from the UK for sale locally and onward transmission to Uganda and
across East Africa.
“KRA, local security agencies, Interpol, United Kingdom
authorities and other international partners are working together
towards breaking the syndicate involved in smuggling stolen high-end
vehicles from UK into Kenya,” Customs and Border Control Commissioner
Kevin Safari said in June.
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