Almost Only 10,314 Fried Oil Liters Successfully Smuggled Into Timor Leste

JAKARTA - Atambu Customs Officers confiscated 10,314 liters of cooking oil that they wanted to be brought to Timor Leste from the door of Mota Ain's Integrated State Border Post (PLBNT), Belu Regency, East Nusa Tenggara.

Head of Customs and Excise at Atambua I Made Aryana when confirmed from Kupang, Friday morning said that 573 boxes had been confiscated by Customs personnel at the PLBN.

"There were three tronton trucks carrying a number of cooking oil. If the total value of the cooking oil confiscated reached Rp. 171 million. The sender was CV Liem Jaya," Aryana said, Friday, October 14.

His party confiscated thousands of liters of cooking oil because when the export documents and physical loading of cooking oil were examined, it was found that 4.5 liters were not appropriate.

This means that he continued to find the overload of the cooking oil with one of the brands. The overload of the cargo is not stated or recorded in the export document.

According to the export document, it was stated that 2,400 boxes were loaded with each truck carrying 800 boxes of cooking oil.

However, the owner of the cooking oil used this to put things that were not recorded in the document.

He detailed that one of the trucks of supposed 800 boxes of cooking oil was found to be an excess of 200 boxes which were also loaded. Meanwhile, in the second truck, it was found that there was an excess of 268 boxes. Then the third truck over 105 boxes.

The owner of the item has also been examined and admitted that there were excess items loaded and violated the predetermined permit.

Furthermore, he said, the cooking oil was based on the regulation of the Minister of Trade 50/2022 concerning the Provisions for CPO Export, RBD PO, RBD Palm Olein, and UCO were commodities that were included in the prohibition and restriction commodities.

"Therefore, if you want to export, it must be equipped with export approval. Otherwise, it is against the law," he said.

As a result of the actions of the owner of the cooking oil, Atambua Customs and Excise stated that the owner of cooking oil violated Article 53 paragraph 4 of the Customs Law.

Furthermore, 10,314 liters of cooking oil are now secured and controlled by the state.