Another aircraft detained for breaking Customs laws
The Customs Department yet again has detained another aircraft at the Terrance B Lettsome International Airport for breaking Customs regulations.
Commissioner Wade Smith said the aircraft arrived from Puerto Rico last Wednesday with cargo for a business place in Road Town.
The cargo did not go through the normal Customs procedure but was collected.
Smith said the pilot, a Puerto Rican, was fined $10,000 for breaking the Customs Management and Duties Act.
Just more than two weeks ago, Customs had detained an aircraft and fined the St Lucian pilot $10,000 for breaking Customs regulations.
At that time, the aircraft that came from St Lucia brought cargo for a worker at the TB Lettsome International Airport.
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Has the relevant business also been fined for trying to circumvent the customs duty?
And some of them get away because of who they are. Still waiting on the outcome of the missing aircraft that left the BVI for Antigua and never made it
Surely the owner of the business who had cargo collected without paying dity should also face criminal charges?
where can one find this act?
About the airport worker in this instance, the pilot couldn’t be the only one? You squeeze the other worker weeks ago for goods that weren’t even his nor he knew it wasn’t declared.
They make up the rules as they go. Preying on the small man
Smith and his crew just love harassing businesses and tourists for minor transgressions of their convoluted rules.
When did they ever catch a drug dealer?
you cannot catch yourself when you are a civil servant but have a power boar worth in excess of $500,000.00
I know we all love to pile on the guys at the airport but it really isn’t a convoluted rule that when you bring stuff in on a plane it needs to go through customs and not just get thrown over the fence or bypass customs. I don’t think anyone seriously thinks that’s right.
These airplanes are circumventing the sky to test how much they can get away with before they bring in the drugs. The drug dealers know that the borders are being protected, so they are testing the sky. The BVI did not have this problem before.
YOU FORGOT PAST AND THE PRESENT WHICH WE ARE IN RIGHT NOW / AND IT’S BEEN GOING ON FOR YEARS – SO YOU BETTER COME BACK TO THE PRESENT FROM THE FUTURE WHICH YOU ARE IN ?
Just goes to show what was happening before COVID-19. No wonder the BVIAA went broke!!! Those airport employees really get lax with themselves. How come we ain’t hear of charges for the business owner like the airport employee??!!
YOU FORGOT PAST AND THE PRESENT WHICH WE ARE IN RIGHT NOW / AND IT’S BEEN GOING ON FOR YEARS – SO YOU BETTER COME BACK TO THE PRESENT FROM THE FUTURE
WHICH YOU ARE IN ? ( OK)
The problem with the COI investigating activities in Tortola started many years ago when the U.S. Food and Drug Administration asked for the extradition for some Torlans, and the NDP said no. The USA and the UK have a strong diplomatic relationship. They are superpower of the world, and little Tortola and the Premier are no match for them. The UK was waiting and looking patiently for a reason to intervene.
U.S. Food and Drug Administration did not try extradite them use your brain they were not selling illegal food SMH
Dammit now I won’t be getting my Puerto Rican “coffee”
The person arranging and receiving the goods from this smuggling operation did not get arrested and charged? Is that right?
Of course not. Belonger.