Customs officer not present when container with cocaine sealed

There was no Customs and Trade Administration (CTA) officer present at the John Fernandes Wharf when the container in which some 122.65 kilos of cocaine was discovered in Jamaica was being loaded, sources say.

Stabroek News has been reliably informed that the CTA officer from the Customs Boat House Unit was not present when the exporter and others sealed the container.

In fact, sources indicated that the officer gave the exporter two seals which the exporter placed on the container. It means that the seals that were on the container in Jamaica were genuine ones and not fake seals as was initially believed.

While Commissioner General of the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) Khurshid Sattaur had said a day after the bust that the CTA officers were