{"id":18236,"date":"2012-02-20T11:13:49","date_gmt":"2012-02-20T16:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=18236"},"modified":"2012-02-20T11:14:26","modified_gmt":"2012-02-20T16:14:26","slug":"busted-plp-nabbed-for-customs-duty-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2012\/02\/busted-plp-nabbed-for-customs-duty-scam","title":{"rendered":"BUSTED! PLP Nabbed For Customs Duty Scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14179 alignleft\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"plp\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/plp.jpg\" alt=\"Progressive Liberal Party\" width=\"120\" height=\"84\" \/>An import agent working for the Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) was busted by Customs trying to bring in a 40-ft container of election campaign t-shirts without paying the full amount of duty on the goods.<\/p>\n<p>The agent is a brother of a senior PLP MP.<\/p>\n<p>If the shipment had cleared the container based on the declaration form submitted by the agent, the PLP would have paid tens of thousands of dollars less in duty.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, a Customs officer made a close inspection of the shipment and discovered that the PLP agent had failed to declare the full and proper value and description of the goods.<\/p>\n<p>A PLP party officer, who was with the agent is a scandal-ridden, drug-smeared goon who is reportedly banned from traveling to the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>The PLP goon allegedly offered the customs officer a $2,000 bribe to clear the container at the lower cost.<\/p>\n<p>The Customs officer declined the bribe, made the PLP import agent pay the full duty on the shipment and levied a $10,000 fine.<\/p>\n<p>The import agent&#8217;s PLP MP brother reportedly rang Customs chief Glenn Gomez, complaining about the $10,000 fine and additional duty. But Gomez refused to lift the fine.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><strong><em>Source:\u00a0 The PUNCH<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An import agent working for the Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) was busted by Customs trying to bring in a 40-ft container of election campaign t-shirts without paying the full amount of duty on the goods.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[93,31,106,60,168],"class_list":["post-18236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-corruption","tag-crime","tag-customs","tag-plp","tag-politics-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}