Madagascar seizes Tanzanian vessel with contraband logs

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Madagascar seizes Tanzanian ship with protected rosewood
AFP
Antananarivo — Madagascar authorities have seized a stricken Tanzanian vessel laden with thousands of logs of the rare and precious red ruby coloured rosewood, police said Wednesday. The vessel carrying 2,135 logs of the prized wood was found ...
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>More than 50, 000 pieces of timber and 8, 000 logs illegally harvested from Tabora Region forest reserves were seized in the past three years.

74 kg contraband seized from Tanzanian woman at Mumbai airport
Business Standard
In one of the biggest drugs seizure at Mumbai airport, the Customs department's Air Intelligence Unit today seized 74 kgs of a contraband, suspected to be methaqualone, from a Tanzanian national. "We have arrested Chambo Fatma Basil under NDPS Act ...

Ten rescued after Tanzanian vessel capsizes in Lake Victoria
Coastweek
DAR ES SALAAM (Xinhua) -- Ten crew members were rescued on Thursday night after their ship carrying 280 tonnes of sugar capsized in Lake Victoria in Tanzania, police confirmed. Kagera regional police commander Valentino Mlowola said the ship ...
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>The government has started auctioning over Sh100 million worth minerals it confiscated at three airports, an official with the Tanzania Minerals Audit Agency (TMAA) has said.

>The Police Force, in collaboration with the Tanzania Revenue Authority (TRA) and the Fair Competition Commission (FCC) have arrested three people in various parts of Mbagala  for stocking and selling contraband cigarettes worth billions of shillings in the past week.

TRA Impounds Smuggled Contraband Sugar
AllAfrica.com
TANZANIA Revenue Authority (TRA) has confiscated 1,158 bags of contraband sugar between September and December, as a crackdown against smuggling of the product intensifies. The TRA Director of Taxpayer Services and Education, Richard Kayombo ...
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Seized vessel faces registration query
Daily News
REGISTRATION of MV Hamal, which was seized by Royal Navy with drugs worth over 500 million pounds sterling, had expired since last June. Zanzibar Maritime Authority Director General, Abdi Omar Maalim said the ill-fated boat, which was manned by a ...

Gunmen attack an Egyptian naval vessel in the Mediterranean, state media report, a day after a car bomb injured 10 in the Sinai Peninsula.