Customs seize ‘tokunbo’ cloths, spaghetti, vegetable oil, others worth N572m in 3 months

The Nigerian Customs Service said it has confiscated different items with Duty Paid Value (DPV) of N572 million within the last three months.

This was made known by the controller in charge of the federal operations unit zone B, Comptroller Mohammed Mustapha, while taking journalists round the confiscated goods in Kaduna on Wednesday.

He also mentioned that the 11 suspects arrested in connection with the seized goods would be charged to court at the conclusion of investigations.

Some of the items seized include trucks and smuggled rice, spaghetti and vegetable oil loaded on them.

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Mustapha also said that 12 vehicles impounded, including J5, Sharon, Passat and golf which were conveying smuggled 3,200 cartoons of spaghetti and second-hand clothes.

He narrated that one of the vehicles conveyed 350 bags of 50kg foreign rice concealed in bags of maize.

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