{"id":4238,"date":"2019-07-31T11:57:26","date_gmt":"2019-07-31T08:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/?p=4238"},"modified":"2025-02-11T12:30:26","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T09:30:26","slug":"kra-detects-three-luxury-cars-by-x-ray-image-declared-as-household-goods-containerized-at-mombasa-port-ma3route","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/kra-detects-three-luxury-cars-by-x-ray-image-declared-as-household-goods-containerized-at-mombasa-port-ma3route\/","title":{"rendered":"Video &#8211; How multiple cars are unloaded from the container"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iYJAa6xcT3s?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt;\">Tax officials have on Wednesday seized three vehicles at the Mombasa port over tax evasion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt;\">Customs officials said the vehicles were declared as household goods and personal effects.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt;\">Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) Commissioner for Customs and Border Control Kevin Safari announced the incident on his Twitter handle.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt;\">\u201cA consignment of suspected concealed vehicles was nabbed at the port of Mombasa. The consignment was declared as household goods and personal effects,\u201d said Mr Safari.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt;\">Mr Safari said one suspect has been arrested.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt;\">The vehicles appear to be top-of-the-range based on the image shared on Twitter by the KRA Commissioner.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt;\">In 2016, KRA deregistered 121 vehicles that were smuggled into the country and no duty was paid. KRA said the owners acquired the registration fraudulently.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt;\">Mr Safari was put at the helm of customs and border control by the KRA board earlier this year to step trafficking of counterfeit, contraband and smuggled goods through Kenya\u2019s porous borders.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt;\">The economy is said to be losing billions of shillings every year through misdeclared goods or undervaluation of imports at the Mombasa port and Kenya\u2019s airports.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">This article appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.k24tv.co.ke\/news\/kra-seizes-top-of-the-range-cars-declared-as-household-goods-5055\/?fbclid=IwAR1267Vg8HqIYIDIyBhZznsUFTv_OK-zOoSM5lZeJ84mkNtspzVK2BntjdM\">K24 News<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Tax officials have on Wednesday seized three vehicles at the Mombasa port over tax evasion. Customs officials said the vehicles were declared as household goods and personal effects. Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) Commissioner for Customs and Border Control Kevin Safari announced the incident on his Twitter handle. \u201cA consignment of suspected concealed vehicles was&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4239,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1905],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pej6K6-16m","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-content\/uploads\/kra-customs-magaripoa.jpg?fit=966%2C590&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}