The penalties that come with smuggling are perhaps the least of worries for some notorious smugglers like Judith Kamwine of Isingiro. Unfortunately, last Friday at 4:00am, Kamwine and her counterparts could not match the surveillance operations. The driver of her goods in truck number UAR075 was intercepted with 192 bags of Kayera brown sugar. Each …
Recently, the customs team in Kakuto received intel about a smuggler who had cleared a store to make it his new consolidation point in Bigada village, Rakai district. A team was immediately deployed to start monitoring the store located near Kakuto market. In the middle of the night, the smuggler was seen ferrying goods using …
Rolls of textile of notorious smuggler in Mutukula netted Read More »
Following the increased smuggling of mobile phones especially through the Eastern part of the country and an outcry from authorized distributors of phones like; Tecno, Itel and Infinix, a focused operation was organized in Mbale last month to check on the compliance levels as regards their importation and local distribution. The operation was led by the Regional Intelligence Liaison …
319 pieces of un customed phones seized in Mbale Read More »
The Mutukula enforcement team went into an operation last Thursday following intelligence reports of continued smuggled energy drinks from Tanzania. During the operation, a truck of registration number UBE 149E was got with 600 cartons of Azam energy drinks smuggled from Tanzania.