Customs authority advises importers not to pay bribe
Sunday, 2 December 2007
Our Correspondent
CHITTAGONG, Dec 01: The customs authority has sent letters to importers advising them to refrain from making any illegal transaction of money including bribes in the name of speed money at Chittagong Customs House (CCH).
In a letter signed by Assistant Commissioner (Import) Md. Fazlul Hoque, the importers have been requested not to pay any money to any one excepting the fixed amount of duties against the imported goods and commission to the C&F agents deployed for clearing of goods.
Moreover, in case of demanding of any money by a customs officer, an employee or any other concerned organisation on immoral ground, the concerned importers have been requested to intimate it to the concerned authority immediately.
Describing the above directive of the Customs as a laudable and time-befitting one, members of the business community have expressed their optimism that such a move would rescue the importers from all sorts of sufferings and hassles caused to them earlier. It would also lessen the expenditures which they had to incur in the past.
CHITTAGONG, Dec 01: The customs authority has sent letters to importers advising them to refrain from making any illegal transaction of money including bribes in the name of speed money at Chittagong Customs House (CCH).
In a letter signed by Assistant Commissioner (Import) Md. Fazlul Hoque, the importers have been requested not to pay any money to any one excepting the fixed amount of duties against the imported goods and commission to the C&F agents deployed for clearing of goods.
Moreover, in case of demanding of any money by a customs officer, an employee or any other concerned organisation on immoral ground, the concerned importers have been requested to intimate it to the concerned authority immediately.
Describing the above directive of the Customs as a laudable and time-befitting one, members of the business community have expressed their optimism that such a move would rescue the importers from all sorts of sufferings and hassles caused to them earlier. It would also lessen the expenditures which they had to incur in the past.