Police in Nyarugenge District on October 12 impounded a vehicle carrying about 78 (640 bottles) smuggled boxes of African Gin.
The vehicle registration number RAA 908K and the goods valued at over Rwf1.5 million were seized at about 12:30am in Muhima Sector, Rugenge Cell as they were being off-loaded.
Police also arrested three people suspected to be behind the act. The trio – Anthere Sinatumwe 45, the driver and Alexis Murengerantwari 48, are currently held at Muhima Police.
The goods are suspected to have been smuggled into the country from Uganda through illegal entries.
According to Police in Nyarugenge, the goods were brought in two separate cars.
“We were informed by some people who were in a nearby bar having a drink. They saw people offloading things taking them behind the nearby toilet and they got suspicious,” one of the police officers who conducted the operation, said.
“We are going to handover the goods to the Revenue Protection Unit (RPU) so that these people pay taxes they were trying to evade,” he added.
RPU is a police unit attached to Rwanda Revenue Authority (RRA) to fight fraud and other related crimes.
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