In an early morning raid, Customs officers seized a quantity of undeclared goods being off-loaded from a vessel at Potter’s Cay dock.<\/p>\n
Sometime around 3:30-4:00am police and defence force officers observed suspicious activity onboard the mv Legend, which was docked at Potter’s Cay.<\/p>\n
They saw people unloading freight, which is unusual at that time due to the fact that the Port Authority office is closed between the hours of Midnight to 8:00am.<\/p>\n
Upon searching the vessel the officers found a large quantity of goods, including over 700 cases of beer, cigars and ice cream.<\/p>\n
The vessel was confiscated<\/p>\n
The mv Legend is owned by Dean’s Shipping Company and travels between West Palm Beach, Marsh Harbour, Green Turtle Cay, Spanish Wells and Nassau.<\/p>\n
An executive at Dean’s Shipping Company claimed ignorance and said the company is conducting its own investigation. He also said that the vessel had already cleared customs on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n
There is no record of that. Nor does it explain why there were so many goods that were not on the ship’s manifest.<\/p>\n
It is not understood why no arrests were made, but it is allegedly due to the fact that the criminal activites were being conducted by well-connected cronies of senior government offcials working with corrupt Customs agents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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