By BUUMBA CHIMBULUTHE Zambia Revenue Authority (ZRA) has seized 3,830 litres of cooking oil in Kafue worth close to K1 million suspected to have been imported using forged permits from the Ministry of Agriculture .ZRA has thus sealed off the warehouse where the cooking oil worth K999,708.54 was stored after it was smuggled into the country by Hitvik Trading Limited.The warehouse is situated at Sub 124, Farm 498A Shimabala in Kafue.According to ZRA findings, the company had been using the warehouse to conduct various suspected smuggling activities.Hitvik Trading Limited had been importing bulk cooking oil using suspected forged import permits from the Ministry of Agriculture and declaring the commodity as crude oil when in fact it was processed cooking oil.This is according to ZRA Corporate Communications Manager, Topsy Sikalinda.Mr Sikalinda said ZRA had been monitoring the operations of the firm from last month for suspected conspiracy to defraud the state tax revenue through smuggling.The offences, […]
ZRA seizes cooking oil worth K1m
