Security sources at the General Administration for Securing the Suez Canal Corridor revealed the details of the biggest corruption incident in Suez Customs, in which three customs clearance agents took part. The Public Prosecution decided to imprison them pending investigations and ordered others to be arrested and brought on charges of forging official documents and tampering with papers to smuggle 33 cars imported from abroad with the owner's personal customs release system. the first.
The sources said in statements to Masrawy, today, Thursday, that the Criminal Investigation Department at the Axis Insurance Department under the supervision of Major General Hisham Darwish, Director of the General Department of Criminal Investigation, observed the emergence of "Muhammad Ahad," a customs extractor and resident in Alexandria, and Victor Mahmoud, a resident of Suez, a customs extractor, and Muhammad Khalifa. A customs broker and resident in Suez are all working in the port of Ain Sokhna in conjunction with customs employees forming a gang to end the customs release procedures for 33 cars imported from abroad under the personal release system for the first owner, which is required for release that the owner is an Egyptian national and resides outside the country for a period of no less than nine months and owns And registering the car in his name in the same model year of the car, and the first owner must bring a certificate from the traffic department registered with it outside the country, proving that he is the first owner, the purchase invoice for the car documented by the embassy, a copy of a valid passport, and a residence certificate in the country outside the country.
Investigations carried out by officers of the administration headed by Brigadier General Mohamed Al-Qaffas, head of the Suez Ports Investigation Department, confirmed that all documents required for customs clearance were forged with passports and residency in South Korea and the invoices approved by the Egyptian embassy.
It was found that there was tampering and forgery in documents and passports, and the presence of frequent personal photos of car owners with other customs data related to cars and other people, so the report of 3 Ain Sokhna Cases No. 6 Ataqah Cases for the year 2016 was issued.
The Public Prosecution decided to imprison the defendants and ordered the formation of a committee from Suez Customs to examine all the customs data under investigation to determine whether or not there are documents included with the preparation of a detailed report on the incident. It also ordered inquiries from the Passports, Immigration and Nationality Authority about passport owners, as well as a certificate of their movements and requested complementary investigations. To determine the identity of the customs officers involved and their roles in the incident and final possession of the cars subject to customs release.
The prosecution also requested a query from the Department of Inspection and Combating Customs Evasion about the value of the financial damage resulting from that incident and the formation of a committee consisting of a technical and information member and a member of the Inspection and Combating Customs Evasion Department and a member of the Presidency of the Customs Authority in Cairo to determine the identity of the employees involved in entering customs data.
