GRA to donate confiscated 39,000 jerrycans cooking oil to school feeding programme

GRA to donate confiscated 39,000 jerrycans cooking oil to school feeding programme

The Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) has announced that 39,256 jerrycans of vegetable cooking oil confiscated in an attempted transit diversion case will be handed over to the National School Feeding Programme following the conclusion of investigations into the matter.

He added that goods declared as tomato paste were also found to be tomato flavour seasoning, while the cooking oil had been wrongly classified under a lower-duty tariff code, resulting in a substantial understatement of the required transit bond.

Mr Sarpong explained that the trucks had been declared as transit cargo from Togo through Ghana to Niger, but investigations established that the trade documents supporting the declaration were falsified.

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