{"id":6899,"date":"2011-03-07T10:55:33","date_gmt":"2011-03-07T15:55:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=6899"},"modified":"2011-03-07T10:55:33","modified_gmt":"2011-03-07T15:55:33","slug":"customs-court-case-to-reveal-shocking-corruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2011\/03\/customs-court-case-to-reveal-shocking-corruption","title":{"rendered":"Customs Court Case To Reveal Shocking Corruption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Customs Department expects to prosecute two companies this year following the discovery of what appears to be a &#8220;shocking&#8221; level of corruption involving the evasion of &#8220;millions of dollars&#8221; in import duty and Stamp Tax payments.<\/p>\n<p>Comptroller of Customs, Glenn Gomez, said that under the current legislative regime, &#8220;98 per cent&#8221; of cases in which businesses are believed to have sought to evade paying funds owed to the Customs Department are dealt with &#8220;in house&#8221; to avoid the time and expense involved in going to court, and the level of investigation required.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Customs Department intends to prosecute two companies after discovering of what appears to be &#8220;shocking&#8221; corruption involving the evasion of millions of dollars in import duty and Stamp Tax payments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"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":[93,151,106],"class_list":["post-6899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-corruption","tag-court","tag-customs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6899","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\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}