BSS, Dhaka :
The government is losing around Taka 700 crore duties every year due to illegal import, mainly through luggage, of unauthorized mobile phone sets.
“The government has been losing huge amount of duties due to the sale of unauthorized mobile sets in the country. As per the rules of the government, everyone has to pay around 25 percent duties while importing mobile handsets,” Moinul Khan, director general of the Customs Intelligence and Investigation Directorate (CIID), told BSS.
He said the CIID has started conducting drives to seize unauthorized mobile handsets from the market to give a message to mobile store owners that the government would not allow selling any illegally imported mobile phone sets in Bangladesh market.
“The drive will be intensified in the coming days, if the mobile phone traders do not refrain from selling unauthorized mobile phone sets,” he added.
Recently, the director general informed, CIID seized more than 200 illegal mobile phone sets, including iPhones, by conducting drives at Bashundhara Shopping Complex in Panthapath and Molly Capita Centre at Gulshan in the city.
The sized phone sets entered the country in luggage dodging the officials, he added.
Talking to BSS, Mohammad Mesbah Uddin, joint secretary of the Bangladesh Mobile Phone Importers Association (BMPIA), said as per their market analysis, the government lost over Taka 700 crore duties in 2017 as a huge number of mobile sets worth about Taka 3,000 crore have entered the Bangladesh market though illegal ways.
The government is losing around Taka 700 crore duties every year due to illegal import, mainly through luggage, of unauthorized mobile phone sets.
“The government has been losing huge amount of duties due to the sale of unauthorized mobile sets in the country. As per the rules of the government, everyone has to pay around 25 percent duties while importing mobile handsets,” Moinul Khan, director general of the Customs Intelligence and Investigation Directorate (CIID), told BSS.
He said the CIID has started conducting drives to seize unauthorized mobile handsets from the market to give a message to mobile store owners that the government would not allow selling any illegally imported mobile phone sets in Bangladesh market.
“The drive will be intensified in the coming days, if the mobile phone traders do not refrain from selling unauthorized mobile phone sets,” he added.
Recently, the director general informed, CIID seized more than 200 illegal mobile phone sets, including iPhones, by conducting drives at Bashundhara Shopping Complex in Panthapath and Molly Capita Centre at Gulshan in the city.
The sized phone sets entered the country in luggage dodging the officials, he added.
Talking to BSS, Mohammad Mesbah Uddin, joint secretary of the Bangladesh Mobile Phone Importers Association (BMPIA), said as per their market analysis, the government lost over Taka 700 crore duties in 2017 as a huge number of mobile sets worth about Taka 3,000 crore have entered the Bangladesh market though illegal ways.
