Consignments

According to the police, Vishal had been actively working for the gang for the last two to three years and retrieved 2 large consignments of illegal arms and ammunition from smugglers based in Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra.

Edward Omatseye (a.k.a Montana) coordinated the illicit drug trade activities for them in Nigeria, with Nnochiri Chidinma Promise as representative of Ben Cargo Ltd, a freight company responsible for the shipment of illicit consignments into the country.

More damaging is the fact that large consignments of psychotropic drugs like capsules are carried through airlines by these couriers.

Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency have arrested two businessmen at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja with consignments of cocaine and heroin going to Hong Kong and France concealed in their bellies.

The Company offers delivery of consignments to approximately 55,000 locations in India and serves over 220 countries and territories and offers distribution services, including air express, freight forwarding, supply chain solutions and customs clearance.

The illegal consignments have since been seized and destroyed, said SFA.

The owners, Mary and Dick Nunis, sold Top Drawer Consignments in 2022 and the new owners opened business in Winter Park, leading to the building no longer being used.

This is mainly due to the risk of damage and disruptions in logistics, which they fear would either cause severe delays in deliveries or even prevent the consignments from arriving at all.

Dev said discussion with the US has been continuing and in the interim it has recognised 10 agencies including an Indian company OneCert International to carry out certification, on basis of which Indian consignments are accepted in the US.

The stakeholders highlighted the challenges associated with the change of procedure code and compounded by a cumbersome process for clearance consignments on transire from coastal ports to Inland Container Terminals in Kano.

This followed months of intelligence processing and tracking of the consignments from their ports of loading in Canada to the landing port in Lagos by combined Special Operations Units in NDLEA and the Tincan Port Strategic Command of the Agency.

Both consignments were seized after seizure notices were issued and placed in custody of the Anti-Narcotics Unit.

Consignments from the safe countries and the EU will be accompanied by certificate from the supplier/scarp yard authority to the effect that it does not contain any radioactive materials or explosives.

The first consignments have arrived in schools and more deliveries will be made as time progresses.

The shortage has been blamed on government red tape in clearing imported consignments and delays by suppliers to meet their delivery timelines.

It was learnt that out of the 25 containers located in the area, five of them had their consignments rotten and emitting a foul odour which the residents said was endangering their health.

Ministry has decided to gradually relax the requirement of 100 per cent physical examination of export consignments of "risky exporters" in case no discrepancies were detected on previous inspections.

One of the prime destinations of D-Company consignments is Britain.

The Birmingham Six and IRA semtex consignments were also spoken about.

Unregulated and unregistered medicines are reportedly flooding into Zimbabwe, with consignments of expired medicines being smuggled into the country through the country's porous border posts.