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Customs police foil attempt to introduce contraband currency to Iraq through Basra
Thursday July 9, 2015 17:13
Basra,
said a source in the Customs Police Directorate, Thursday, that the Directorate had foiled an attempt to smuggle funds from Kuwait to Iraq through the port Safwan border post, located in the province of Basra , and arrested the truck driver Kuwaiti Sudanese nationality. The source said in an interview with Alsumaria News , The "Customs Police Directorate in the southern region seized in the port Safwan border land between Iraq and Kuwait, about half a million dollars in addition to the Iraqi funds were hidden inside the truck Kuwaiti", noting that "the force arrested the truck, which was carrying smuggled money driver, a Sudanese nationality" .
The source, who asked not to be named, said: "an investigation to determine the source of these funds and the recent destination inside Iraq," adding that "the foiled smuggling of funds was a result of the strict inspection of trucks expatriate." It is said that the Safwan border port only land between Iraq and Kuwait Located near the Safwan center of administratively to spend Zubair, called the Kuwaitis on the Kuwaiti side of the port name (Abdali) port, and through the port passing day dozens of trucks loaded with various types of cargo, as well as a small number of passengers due to complex conditions adopted by the Kuwaiti government to curb Iraqi citizens travel to Kuwait.
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Thursday July 9, 2015 17:13
Basra,
said a source in the Customs Police Directorate, Thursday, that the Directorate had foiled an attempt to smuggle funds from Kuwait to Iraq through the port Safwan border post, located in the province of Basra , and arrested the truck driver Kuwaiti Sudanese nationality. The source said in an interview with Alsumaria News , The "Customs Police Directorate in the southern region seized in the port Safwan border land between Iraq and Kuwait, about half a million dollars in addition to the Iraqi funds were hidden inside the truck Kuwaiti", noting that "the force arrested the truck, which was carrying smuggled money driver, a Sudanese nationality" .
The source, who asked not to be named, said: "an investigation to determine the source of these funds and the recent destination inside Iraq," adding that "the foiled smuggling of funds was a result of the strict inspection of trucks expatriate." It is said that the Safwan border port only land between Iraq and Kuwait Located near the Safwan center of administratively to spend Zubair, called the Kuwaitis on the Kuwaiti side of the port name (Abdali) port, and through the port passing day dozens of trucks loaded with various types of cargo, as well as a small number of passengers due to complex conditions adopted by the Kuwaiti government to curb Iraqi citizens travel to Kuwait.
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