Staff Reporter :
Customs officials seized a luxury car lying abandoned in the city’s Hatirjheel area on Monday morning.
The ‘Porsche Cayenne 955’ car worth about Tk four crore with its key and a letter was lying abandoned on the bridge in front of Runner Building at Hatirjheel in the morning, said HM Sharif al Hasan, Deputy Director of Customs Intelligence and Investigation Directorate (CIID).
This car was favourite to me. “Yet I am surrendering my car as tax was dodged,” the note read.
The Customs found the car keys and a note addressing the Customs intelligence chief inside the vehicle and requested the
CIID not to go after the owner for the sake of his reputation, the Customs DD said.
Hasan said, “Verifying the engine number, it could be ascertained that one Farida Rashid, a Bangladeshi expatriate living in the UK, brought the car through the Chittagong Port in 2010.”
The car was brought in the country enjoing the Carnet de Passage facility, he said.
Moinul Khan, Director General of the CIID, said, “It is thought that the car was brought into the country evading taxes. Though the owner is yet to be ascertained, the note, apparently from the owner requested that the customs intelligence officials should leave him undisturbed.”
They would take legal actions after verifying documents related to the vehicle, the DG said.
Customs officials seized a luxury car lying abandoned in the city’s Hatirjheel area on Monday morning.
The ‘Porsche Cayenne 955’ car worth about Tk four crore with its key and a letter was lying abandoned on the bridge in front of Runner Building at Hatirjheel in the morning, said HM Sharif al Hasan, Deputy Director of Customs Intelligence and Investigation Directorate (CIID).
This car was favourite to me. “Yet I am surrendering my car as tax was dodged,” the note read.
The Customs found the car keys and a note addressing the Customs intelligence chief inside the vehicle and requested the
CIID not to go after the owner for the sake of his reputation, the Customs DD said.
Hasan said, “Verifying the engine number, it could be ascertained that one Farida Rashid, a Bangladeshi expatriate living in the UK, brought the car through the Chittagong Port in 2010.”
The car was brought in the country enjoing the Carnet de Passage facility, he said.
Moinul Khan, Director General of the CIID, said, “It is thought that the car was brought into the country evading taxes. Though the owner is yet to be ascertained, the note, apparently from the owner requested that the customs intelligence officials should leave him undisturbed.”
They would take legal actions after verifying documents related to the vehicle, the DG said.
