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Cocaine in prunes intercepted at TTPost in Piarco
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The head office of Trinidad and Tobago Postal Service (TTPOST), Golden Grove Road, Piarco. - Photo by Roger Jacob
Vigilant staff at TTPost in Piarco alerted the Customs officer on duty on Wednesday after becoming suspicious of a package of prunes destined for the United States.
The officer dissected the package and saw what appeared to be cocaine coming from one of the prunes, which was examined. Officers from the Preventive Branch of the Customs and Excise Division were called in and the package was seized.
A senior official at TTPost complimented the staff on their alertness in deeming the package suspicious. He said this level of scrutiny is consistent with TTPost operating standards and that the package would have gone through a further examination at the facilities of the international courier company that was destined to take the package to the US.
Published on: Sunday, December 13, 2020
By: Nicholas Chung
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TWO events in 1992 made history for Tawau. The first was when I hosted the visit in April by Dato’ Seri Anwar Ibrahim, then Finance Minister; he was the first Federal Finance Minister to call at any Customs Station in Sabah.
Soon after that, shortly before I left Tawau, I hosted an official visit by the then Director-General of the Bea dan Cukai Department of the Republic of Indonesia, Bapak Soehardjo and his deputy Bapak Ali Purwito. They were in Tawau for a fact-finding mission and also to observe cross-border trade operations between Tawau and Kalimantan.