Aden customs confiscate 70-ton smuggled goods [Archives:2005/847/Business & Economy]

Administration of Aden customs and concerned security apparatuses have recently confiscated 70 tons of smuggled and banned goods that have been smuggled into Yemen illegally. The goods were aboard a locally-origin ship that was intercepted by gunboats of Yemeni coast Guard in Yemeni territorial waters at Bab El Mandab Strait last Saturday.

Customs sources in Aden said the captured goods contained prohibited fireworks, packages of forged medicines and quantities of beans.

File investigation with owner of the ship and those accompanying him were sent to concerned parties to take legal necessary and deterrent procedures in order to curb the repetition of such acts detriment to the national economy.
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