Central auto dealer’s business raided, Lamborghini seized

The car dealer is the owner of another lamborghini.

It is alleged that the dealer corruptly used someone living in the United States to bring in the lamborghini on the pretext that he was a returning national.

Under the Customs Act, a returning national can bring in any vehicle owned by that person and be exempted from exorbitant duties.

Investigations by Police and Customs revealed that the returning national left the country after delivering the lamborghini to the car dealer which resulted in the vehicle being seized.

Newsday also understands the three other high end vehicles which were also brought into the country and which were also exempted from duties were also seized.

An investigation has now been launched to ascertain how certain vehicles were cleared by Customs and Excise without the proper documents and FIB officers are probing how the car dealer was able to import a number of vehicles into the country by making cash payments with US currency and with no paper trail to show how he came into possession of those monies.

In an unrelated matter, Senior Customs and Excise officers have begun a probe into the presence of five Customs and Excise officers at a Siparia hotel two Fridays ago during a police raid of the establishment.

According to reports, a joint team of Police and immigration officers raided a Siparia hotel in which several foreign nationals believed to be Venezuelans were found. The five Customs and Excise officers were questioned about their presence at the hotel and they allegedly began abusing officers claiming that they had every right to be there and provided their identification to the raiding officers during the exercise.

The five officers were allowed to leave without facing any prosecution but the matter was reported to Customs and Excise which has now launched an internal investigation into the matter.