The rogue officials were said to be colluding with unscrupulous traders to facilitate false declarations to deny the taxman requisite taxes such as import duty. They also allow in counterfeits in exchange for kickbacks.
According to a newspaper report “In the past six months alone, Kenyans may have lost about Sh100 billion in tax evasion and sale of substandard goods.”
Vacuum flasks on two shiploads were declared high-end and entered the Kenyan market, yet their quality was poor. “They bring in fake flasks which cannot keep tea or water hot for an hour, yet they lie they can keep drinks hot for 24 hours. We are victims of corruption and deceit,” said Kinoti.
Apparently, some investigators said the cartel involved in tax evasion and clearance of contraband goods was networked and had been threatening them. “They have been lying to the President and the country on the tax collected. This is a complicated web that must be dismantled for us to realise our dreams,” said a source.
They probably need to bring in the GSU at the port and at KRA, if the cartel criminal enterprise behave in a mercenary manner.
The word cartel has been over used lately. It bores me. The only cartels natambua ni the likes of escobar na chapo guzman. What we have here is just greedy & corrupt individuals.
Yes, let’s call them fraudsters, thieves, gangsters, robbers, scammers, bandits, scallywags, bilge rats, tricksters, conmen, con artists etc. We have a lazy media that uses the same words to describe, infact all the rags that call themselves newspapers are bullcrap
Illegal fraudulent activities operating via an organised coordinated network, over a sustained significant lengthy period, which involve engineered loses, amounting to KSH Billions automatically transforms from mere acts of bribery to a criminal corruption cartel; multiple people working in agreement within Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA), Kenya Ports Authority (KPA), Kenya Bureau of Standards (Kebs) and Clearing Agents = Cartel = entrenched problem.
the word cartel is absolutely right, unless you only understand about “drug cartels”. There are also “business cartels”, where they form a formal or informal agreement between a group of producers of a good or service to regulate supply in an effort to regulate or manipulate prices. The cartel controls the entire chain of the business…
A cartel is an organization of a few independent producers for the purpose of improving the profitability of the firms involved. These Kenyan “cartels” do not produce anything. All they do is rob and forge.