Operation on Contraband Milk Powder in Mombasa
From X/@DCI_Kenya
The operation to rid the nation of contrabands and ensure food safety has heightened, with security teams furthering major crackdowns on business operators out to gamble with human life. Detectives from DCI’s Operation Support Unit yesterday conducted an operation at a Mombasa wholesale shop suspected to be dealing with contraband milk powder which is located within Lebanon area Biashara Street. Jointly with officers from the Kenya Dairy Board and KRA, they conducted a search at the said AMS Wholesalers Limited, where the following products were recovered: 41 bags of HILWA Full Cream Milk Powder, each 25 kg product of New Zealand and 25 bags of BROOKSIDE Full Cream Milk Powder each 25kg.
KRA officials estimated a taxable value of Sh 1,650,000 on the products, which have since been taken as exhibits at the KRA Changamwe warehouse. One suspect, Ahmed Salah Mohamed, who is the proprietor of the shop was arrested. Upon interrogations, the suspect claimed to have acquired the consignment from an accomplice in the name of Dahir, whose warehouse is located in Shimanzi, Mombasa.
Dahir had been arrested during an earlier operation in Nairobi, and investigations are ongoing to trace his Mombasa warehouse for inspection of the stored products.
Two days earlier, at Best Buy Commodities Ltd warehouse located at Bluesilk Holdings Ltd godowns in Embakasi, Nairobi, saw the confiscation of contraband milk products estimated at Sh3 million in value. These included over ten thousand tins of various milk products from Saudi Arabia, such as Luna Full Cream, Luna Sweetened Condensed Milk, Luna evaporated Milk Karak, Cardamum and Full Cream, among others. Also recovered in the raid, where two suspects were nabbed and are being processed for arraignment, were contraband milk products from Malaysia.
The seizures were made just two days after other milk products estimated at Sh10 million were recovered in Eastleigh at Amana Wholesalers Ltd stores, where seven suspects were arrested and subsequently charged. The multi-agency crackdown which incorporated Kenya Dairy Board and KRA officers led to the recovery of: 202 tins of milk powder each weighing 2.5Kg branded NURA, 371 tins of milk powder each weighing 2.5Kg branded FRESH, 891 tins of milk powder each weighing 400gms branded COW & GATE, 985 tins of milk powder each weighing 400gms branded NAN, 472 tins of milk powder each weighing 800gms branded SMA, 155 tins of milk powder each weighing 400gms branded S26, 71 tins each weighing 2.5 Kg, 164 tins each weighing 900gms, 818 tins each weighing 390gms and 7 bags each weighing 25Kg milk powder branded HILWA, 159 tins of milk powder each weighing 2.5Kg branded ANCHOR product of UAE, 73 tins each weighing 2.5 Kg and 72 tins each weighing 900gms milk powder branded LATO, 110 tins of milk powder each weighing 2.5Kg branded HANAN, 66 tins each weighing 2.5 Kg and 120 tins each weighing 900gms milk powder branded BROOKSIDE, 639 tins of milk powder each weighing 400gms branded LIPTOMIL, 49 tins of milk powder each weighing 400gms branded ALPHA, 72 sachets of milk powder each weighing 500gms branded ALMANI CHASE, and 48 sachets of milk powder each weighing 500gms branded SALIM CHASE.
The seven suspects were charged with three counts and released on a shillings two million bond.
