{"id":52015,"date":"2024-11-25T09:35:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-25T09:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/rubavu-police-seize-62-bales-of-smuggled-second-hand-clothes\/"},"modified":"2024-11-25T09:36:04","modified_gmt":"2024-11-25T09:36:04","slug":"rubavu-police-seize-62-bales-of-smuggled-second-hand-clothes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/rubavu-police-seize-62-bales-of-smuggled-second-hand-clothes\/","title":{"rendered":"Rubavu: Police seize 62 bales of smuggled second-hand clothes"},"content":{"rendered":"

The bales were recovered l in a house located in Gisenyi sector, Kivumu cell in Itangazamakuru village, which was being used as store, when Police searched it on Saturday, November 23.<\/p>\n

Two men were arrested at the scene in connection with smuggling and fraud.<\/p>\n

The Police spokesperson for the Western region, Superintendent of Police (SP) Bonaventure Twizere Karekezi, said: “Police had information about a group of smugglers, which had sneaked unknown quantities of bales of used clothes into Rwanda from DRC, through a porous border called Kukarundo.”<\/p>\n

He added: “Later that day, Police searched the house, which was suspected to be their store, they recovered 62 bales and arrested two people at the scene.<\/p>\n

Police is also searching for other seven people said to be members of the same ring and owners of the seized bales of clothes.”<\/p>\n

SP Karekezi also warned moto-taxi operators, who facilitate smugglers and drug traffickers.<\/p>\n

Early this week, ASOC also impounded a vehicle in Rubavu District, which was transporting 16 bales of smuggled second-hand clothes commonly known as caguwa. Two people were arrested over the same act.<\/p>\n

Article 87 of the law on tax procedures provides an imprisonment of between 2 and 5 years, for tax evasion.<\/p>\n

Under article 199 of the East African Community Management Act, which is applicable in Rwanda, seized smuggled goods are auctioned.<\/p>\n

A vehicle intercepted with smuggled goods is also auctioned and the driver slapped a fine of US$5000.<\/p>\n

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The Anti-smuggling and Organized Crime (ASOC) department has seized 62 bales in second-hand clothes in Rubavu District, which were smuggled into Rwanda from the DR Congo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":2000077521,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-52015","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":2000077521,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/124.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/124.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/124.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/124.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/124.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/124.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52015","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=52015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000077521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52015"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=52015"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=52015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}