Customs' fraud via tele-actor's trickery of plastic flowers

Customs' fraud via tele-actor's trickery of plastic flowers

On pretence of bringinging down wall-carpets by a popular tele-actor of this country a fine was imposed on a container of 20 feet containing plastic flowers and it is understood that the said container has been assessed and sold for one lakh by a team of officers of central customs unit. This was revealed at an inquiry carried out by customs screening division. 

Apart from customs tax imposed for a kilo of plastic flowers, a cess tax was imposed as Rs. twenty

five lakhs per thousand rupees for the said container. This plastic flowers package container was brought in the month of January, 2018 and it had been sold for Rs. one lakh in the month of June, 2019. It was revealed at inquiries that officers of removal division had appraised the container concerned containing artificial flowers for a low figure.

This tele-drama actor had brought these items even on a previous occasion inferring that those were for shooting purposes of tele-dramas and has thus misled customs and after taking into consideration previous faults customs have taken action to enforce a fine of Rs. sixty one lakhs. Since the tele-drama actor declined to release the container containing plastic flowers, customs had decided to sell it. 

When it was ruled that the containing plastic flowers to be sold at Rs. 25 lakhs, assessor of customs removal division have told customs that it could be sold not at Rs. 25 lakhs but for Rs. one lakh. Subsequently, it came to be known by customs authorities that the said container of flowers was sold at a price of Rs. one lakh to the actor himself who brought that container of flowers. It was reported that it is these same officers who craftily got rid of five palm oil containers and have had those sold.