Customs DG Thwarts Smuggling of 163 tons Imported Meat
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Kamis, 1 Januari 1970 07:00 WIB
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta-The Finance Ministry's Customs Directorate General has confiscated seven containers of illegal meat from Australia and New Zealand. The containers were detained because what's inside of them is not what was written in the documents.
Heru Pambudi, the ministry's Customs Director General, said the documents accompanying the containers wrote that they were filled with animal feed. "It turned out they were cow innards," he said at the Tanjung Priok Port, Thursday, June 16.
The containers came through Tanjung Priok's Mustika Alam Lestari terminal on May 16. Customs officers checked them on May 21, and on May 26 they took preventive measures.
It was PT Cahaya Sakti Utama Baru that imported the 163 tons of cow innards. In addition, there were also neck trims. "Basically cheap meat," Heru said.
The Customs DG is in the process of questioning five people implicated in the illegal import to inquire where the meat would have been sold if they had passed Customs' checking.
Heru said the DG will also revoke PT Cahaya Sakti Utama Baru's import license over charges of unfair business practices.
