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KRA unmasks hides and skins export racket
Thursday April 01 2021
By BRIAN OCHARO
KRA says unscrupulous traders export locally sourced hides and skins as transit cargo originating from South Sudan.
Onywa Caleb Orwa was arraigned on Wednesday for false declaration of goods at the Port of Mombasa leading to loss of revenue amounting to Sh1.7 million.
Mr Orwa is accused, jointly with others still at large, of falsely declaring 6,000 pieces of dried hides and skins to have been in transit from South Sudan with the intention of evading paying the correct export duty.
The trader, who appeared before Mombasa Senior Resident Magistrate Christine Ogweno, denied the accusation.