Interpol Investigation: Mauritian Arrested for Smuggling Gold in Comoros

11 years, 9 months ago - July 04, 2012

Narad Ramdawan, 39, a Mauritian noodle vendor is within the scope of an Interpol investigation. He was arrested in May last in the Comoros with a British company with 49.7 kilos of gold, then they wanted transit to Dubai via Nairobi.

Interpol has finally opened an investigation into the Narad Ramdawan Mauritian and British Buprendra Nechand Shah arrested in Comoros, Saturday, May 26, 2012, for smuggling five gold bars totaling 49.7 pounds. Collaboration Barracks power was sought so that light is shed on the activities of Mauritian, a noodle vendor.

Aged 39, Narad Ramdawan was intercepted by customs Comoros alongside Buprendra Nechand Shah, 58, as they passed through the airport Prince Said Ibrahim, Hahaya to reach Dubai via Nairobi. Both came to land in the archipelago aboard a private jet chartered to Madagascar where they had recovered the cargo of gold.

The police investigation revealed that Mauritian Ramdawan Narad was his first trip to the Big Island and had made the trip a week before his arrest. Pending his trial, the Attorney General of the Comoros, Mahamoud Soilih, said the traffic of gold to Dubai and China through the archipelago was "rife" with the complicity of local customs.

Two days before the arrest of Mauritius and the British, the Comorian authorities had also seized three gold bars weighing 15 kg and worth more than Rs 7.5 million on two Malagasy in transit. They would also join Dubai from Nairobi.

"Both have confessed Malagasy enjoyed the complicity of customs Malagasy and Comorian," said Mahamoud Soilih to the local press. It also reveals that as soon as Narad Ramdawan Buprendra Nechand and Shah have aterri Comoros, a local businessman came back with the note of the Comorian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The merchant still had access to the airport tarmac. However, as he has made multiple trips between the Comoros and Madagascar, customs officers decided to search the luggage of his friends.

A controversy swells already in the archipelago since the central bank Comorian and Malagasy Minister of Justice want their hands on gold bars seized. However, the Attorney General of Comoros opposes this approach. It indicates that the judicial process take its course.

It should be noted that at the beginning of June 2012, the newspaper L'Express de Madagascar revealed that the British and Narad Ramdawan Buprendra Nechand Shah have been posing as VIP jet taking to the Comoros. This, according to this newspaper, would have enabled them to transport gold fraudulently ..

Text by lexpress.mu

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