“Bag sellers” mobilize customs companies

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The surveillance companies affiliated with the Common Administration of Customs and Oblique Taxes monitor a variety of “bag merchants,” who’re Moroccan residents and others who’re immigrants overseas, and who’ve specialised in buying and selling in sure items based mostly on demand.

In line with knowledgeable sources, the suspects journey overseas repeatedly all year long as a way to full business transactions for the advantage of their shoppers in Morocco, they usually make vital income from merchandise that they don’t declare to customs, as they’re handed on the premise of presents and particular provides.

The identical sources defined that the monitoring operations had been based mostly on correct data acquired from social media websites, particularly “Instagram” and “Tik Tok,” as “bag retailers” relied on the 2 aforementioned websites to work together with prospects and publish video clips for on-demand procuring.

As well as, they publish data on the aforementioned websites concerning the dates of their arrival in Morocco to ship orders, which primarily concern ready-made garments, equipment, perfumes, and treasured jewellery…

Furthermore, the analysis carried out, based mostly on stories analyzing knowledge acquired from the Vigilance Service of the Nationwide Customs Division, made it doable to establish “service provider” vacationers arriving primarily by Mohammed V Airport in Casablanca and Marrakesh Menara and Agadir Al Massira airports, the place their baggage was subjected to surveillance operations. Minutes enabled the seizure of great portions of products destined for trafficking by resale in several areas of the Kingdom.

The above-mentioned sources, monitoring the inspection and monitoring operations, revealed the shortage of availability of these involved, whose items had been subjected to customs duties, in any business authorized capability, whether or not a self-contractor or an organization with a sure type, and the identical applies to the unified tax identification quantity, business registry quantity, or non permanent import licenses. This makes their actions a violation of the regulation.