{"id":49806,"date":"2024-01-25T06:22:31","date_gmt":"2024-01-25T06:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/police-seize-63-bales-of-smuggled-clothes-in-rubavu\/"},"modified":"2024-01-25T06:25:09","modified_gmt":"2024-01-25T06:25:09","slug":"police-seize-63-bales-of-smuggled-clothes-in-rubavu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/police-seize-63-bales-of-smuggled-clothes-in-rubavu\/","title":{"rendered":"Police seize 63 bales of smuggled clothes in Rubavu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least 63 bales were recovered when Police officers searched the house located in Rungu Cell, Gahenerezo Village on Wednesday, January 24.<\/p>\n<p>One person said to be part of the ring, was arrested at the scene, Superintendent of Police (SP) Twizere Bonaventure Karekezi, the Police spokesperson for the Western region, said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A local resident tipped-off the Police about a house in Rubavu District, Mudende Sector, Rungu Cell, Gahenerezo Village used by smugglers as store for caguwa sneaked into Rwanda from the Democratic Republic of Congo.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, when police officers attached to anti-smuggling unit searched the house at about midnight, they recovered 63 bales and arrested one person,&#8221; SP Karekezi said.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect, who claimed that he was paid Rwf50,000 to keep the goods, disclosed that the bales were sneaked into Rwanda, recently, by a notorious smuggler, who is yet to be arrested.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They were mainly using porous routes in Kibaya and using the same house as store before smuggling them to other destinations, including Kigali.<\/p>\n<p>The same suspect still at large, has been implicated in similar crime several times,&#8221; SP Karekezi said.<\/p>\n<p>He thanked the resident, who shared information leading on the illegal acts, and commended the role of the public in fighting and preventing crimes.<\/p>\n<p>A taxpayer, who commits fraud, is also subject to an administrative fine of one hundred percent (100%) of the evaded tax and a likely imprisonment of between six months and two years. Seized smuggled goods are also auctioned.<\/p>\n<p>Article 87 of the law on tax procedures provides an imprisonment of between two and five years, for tax evasion.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-63018\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/12-53.jpg\" alt=\"The suspect, who claimed that he was paid Rwf50,000 to keep the goods, disclosed that the bales were sneaked into Rwanda, recently, by a notorious smuggler, who is yet to be arrested.\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{The Police anti-smuggling unit has discovered a house in Mudende Sector, Rubavu District which was being used as store for smuggled second hand clothes commonly known as caguwa.}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":2000063017,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-49806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":{"id":2000063017,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/whatsapp_image_2024-01-24_at_10.23_56_am.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/whatsapp_image_2024-01-24_at_10.23_56_am.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/whatsapp_image_2024-01-24_at_10.23_56_am.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/whatsapp_image_2024-01-24_at_10.23_56_am.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/whatsapp_image_2024-01-24_at_10.23_56_am.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/whatsapp_image_2024-01-24_at_10.23_56_am.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000063017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49806"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=49806"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=49806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}