Mohammad Suman

The 22 clearing and forwarding agents and importers guilty of forging signatures and stamp seals of government officials in the past

It was a dream come true for Milon Chakraborty, a resident of Lalmonirhat district. For the last one year and a half, he had been pursuing a lifelong dream of having a job at Chattogram Customs.

At least 73 suspicious applications were uploaded to the Election Commission database for issuing national identity cards, a government committee has found while probing the forged NID card of a Rohingya woman in Chattogram.

The Chattogram Customs House has yet to start making an inventory of the consignments seized at the port on July 23 on charge of containing large quantities of foreign liquor.

The Chattogram Custom House found evidence of corruption against six of its officials who allegedly helped an importer dodge taxes on consignments released from the Chattogram airport earlier this month.

Goods worth Tk 790 crore, which were imported under the duty-free bonded warehouse facility, were sold in the local market by more than 100 garments and accessories factories in Chattogram in the past five years.

Chattogram Customs House seized a huge consignment of alcohol, imported as capital machinery for a power plant, from three barges in the Karnaphuli river on Tuesday night. The consignment was offloaded on to the barges from a mother vessel from China.

Goods worth around Tk 10,000 crore have been left abandoned by importers at the Chattogram Port for the past five and half years, depriving customs of revenue and leading to a space crisis.

Debt-ridden Mostafa Group wants to pay back Tk 1,500 crore loans with around three dozen lenders taking advantage of the central bank’s rescheduling facility, as it looks to make a comeback.

International Tobacco Industries Ltd, a Chattogram-based cigarette manufacturer, has dodged Tk 62 crore in value added tax by importing 169 tonnes of raw materials under a fake company, according to a probe report.

An apparel company has evaded Tk 57 lakh tax in allegedly connivance with customs officials in Chattogram by producing forged bank statements while getting its cargo released from the port, customs found.

A clearing and forwarding (C&F) agent took delivery of nine consignments of various goods from Chattogram’s Shah Amanat International Airport in December last year allegedly using forged documents.

Sugar prices have gone up by Tk 120 per mound in the Khatunganj-Chaktai market, the hub for wholesale of commodities in Chattogram, soon after the proposed budget for 2019-20 was placed on Thursday.

The Chattogram Customs, Excise and VAT Commissionerate has found that three real estate companies dodged about Tk 15 crore in

Most officials at Customs House Chattogram are not only performing their designated duties but also filling in for vacant posts for an acute shortage of workforce.

Prices of basic commodities will remain stable in Chattogram during the month of Ramadan because of adequate stock and supply, said traders and a senior government official yesterday.

Lack of due diligence by the customs authorities in Chattogram has resulted in samples of imported goods allegedly being tampered with before testing to dodge taxes.

Customs detectives are yet to figure out the types of goods that were in the 22 consignments fraudsters made way with by stealing log-in credentials of revenue officials.

Crystal Gold, the vessel that ran aground at Chattogram's Parki Sea Beach two years ago during cyclone Mora, is still there threatening the environment.

The Bangladesh Export Processing Zones Authority (Bepza) has taken an initiative to reopen 11 factories and create around 10,000 jobs in Chattogram Export Processing Zone within a year.