{"id":14490,"date":"2006-12-08T01:43:56","date_gmt":"2006-12-08T01:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/pages\/customs-bust\/"},"modified":"2006-12-08T01:43:56","modified_gmt":"2006-12-08T01:43:56","slug":"customs-bust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2006\/12\/08\/customs-bust\/","title":{"rendered":"Customs bust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The Customs Department has confiscated merchandise with an estimated value of RD$125 million, which the importers tried to bring into the country without paying taxes. The shipments carrying the merchandise originated in the United States, Panama, and China. Luis Sanchez, sub-director of Customs, explained that household appliances, alcoholic drinks and clothing accessories among other things were found in the shipments, belonging to what he called &#8220;a Mafia network&#8221;. Sanchez also revealed that as a result of investigations into the network, five Finance Ministry officials and eight Customs agents have been fired. Diario Libre reports that dismissals of 14 other people involved are also pending.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Customs Department has confiscated merchandise with an estimated value of RD$125 million, which the importers tried to bring into the country without paying taxes. The shipments carrying the merchandise originated in the United States, Panama, and China. Luis Sanchez, sub-director of Customs, explained that household appliances, alcoholic drinks and clothing accessories among other things &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2006\/12\/08\/customs-bust\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[225,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14490"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}