Based on the investigation it has conducted so far, the Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU) has said there is no “conclusive” evidence that the cocaine found by German authorities in a shipment of rice from Guyana had been loaded here.
This disclosure was made on Thursday night by CANU, which signalled that the narcotics was possibly loaded while the hipment was in-transit in the Dominican Republic. It did, however, uncover a number of “loopholes” and “irregularities” in the local handling on the shipment. As a result, CANU said that it is engaged in a collaborative investigation with the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) to fix the situation.
Authorities in Hamburg early last week announced that they were probing the discovery of a tonne and a half of cocaine in a container of rice that originated in Guyana.
