Illegal Trade: Foodstuffs, Cosmetics, Restricted Chemical, Vehicles Seized

An effective action is being taken to prevent illicit trade under the law supervised by the Anti-Illegal Trade Steering Committee. On duty investigation team from 16th-mile Kyaukchaw  checkpoint seized 10 Compound Multi-gas detectors Model BH-4, without official documents at 21st mile and 5th furlong point of Pyin Oo Lwin-Mandalay road on 20 August.

On duty team at Kawkareik  (Tadakyo) checkpoint seized 40 bags of Ammonium Nitrate, which is a restricted chemical from an express bus, which is driven from Myawady to Yangon on 20 August, and foodstuffs and cosmetics, without official documents, and a Sunlong express vehicle, carrying the goods.

An inspection team seized consumer goods without official documents at the Thanlwin  bridge combined checkpoint. A combined team searched a truck; driven from Myawady to Yangon, at Kawkareik (Tadakyo) combined check point on 21 August.

They found 320 boxes of ceramic tile without ID and foodstuffs estimate. The combined team seized foodstuffs without official documents and a Canter at Myawady-Thingan-Nyinaung  road. Therefore, 11 cases (at estimated value of 145.815 million Kyats) were taken action on 20 and 21 August, according to the Anti-Illegal Trade Steering Committee.