Over 87,600 bottles of expensive wine and 1,300 bottles of other alcoholic drinks were confiscated from a Premium Food Service warehouse on December 4 by a government mobile inspection team. The team granted the company three days to produce the correct import documents.
On December 8, the mobile team sent a notice letter to Win Win Tint, Managing Director of City Mart Holdings Ltd who had earlier requested for one week to produce the documents.
"One week time is not possible for the mobile team, the authorities have been waiting until 4:30 pm yesterday. The company didn’t show the documents within the time assigned by the authorities, so they will be charged for contravening the Export-Import Law," said mobile team leader Win Lwin.
The wine bottles confiscated include expensive brands from the USA, France, Italy, Australia and South Africa.
City Mart Holdings Ltd. has temporarily halted the selling of alcohol, wine and beer in its retain chain: City Mart, Ocean and City Express shops, Win Win Tint told the local media on December 6.
The supermarkets under City Mart Holdings Ltd. sell about Ks 30 million valued of alcohol, wine, beer and cigarettes daily. They own 20 City Mart supermarkets, five outlets of Ocean Super Centre and 26 shops under City Express in Yangon and Mandalay.
A formal letter arrived to the Central Committee for Illegal Trade Control dated October 28 that their warehouse was storing illegal goods in Thaketa. The committee concluded on December 3 that the report is trustworthy and investigated the warehouse on the next day.
The seizure is the fifth case reported in three months of big companies being connected with illegal imports.
According to Section 8 of the Export-Import Law, confiscation of goods and imprisonment of up to three years will apply if a person is convicted of exporting and importing restricted goods which is enforced in Section 5 or 6 of Export-Import Law.
source: Eleven Myanmar
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