| Uncustomed Liquor At VLB, Customs Still Investigating |
| Wed, March 27, 2024 |
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The Customs Department continues to assess 850 cases of uncustomed liquor they confiscated from the Victor L Bryant Warehouse in Belize City on Monday.
A rare release from that Department says, quote, "On March 25, 2024, officers of Customs executed a search warrant on the premises of Victor L. Bryant warehouse located on Chetumal Street in Belize City and therein discovered an amount of liquor suspected to be uncustomed and bearing fraudulent Supplies Control Unit labels. The Department is currently conducting a detailed exercise to confirm the actual quantity and value of the seized liquor and collaborating with the Supplies Control Unit regarding the apparent fraudulent labels. We emphasize that this is an ongoing investigation and our officers are diligently working to ascertain the extent of this seizure." End quote.
So, according to latest reports to 7news, the total lost in government revenue is about 350,000 thousand dollars in what customs suspect was a thriving operation to wholesale uncustomed alcohol to establishment including major hotels and resorts. So how did this kind of alleged racket happen at a major legacy business in Belize? We did try to contact Sanjay Hotchandani who is known as the principal of Victor L Bryant - but at newstime he had not responded to our request for a comment.
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