Customs seize scrap metal consignment in Puerto Plata

Security and Intelligence officials from the Directorate General of Customs (DGA), on Monday seized a container filled with copper, just before it was shipped from the cargo terminal at Puerto Plata, to  Miami in the United States.

The container was declared by Andrés Rodríguez, as a shipment of disposable cloths, with the ID number GLDU216945-4, consigned to Antillana Dominicana C. por A.

The container was unloaded from the ship "Carib Trader", in an operation carried out by officers of the DGA at 9: 30 pm on Monday, on suspicion that it contained controlled substances, because the inspection report issued by the national drug control Directorate had been forged.

According to the DGA's report, when the Customs authorities of Puerto Plata proceeded to verify the contents of the container, the found instead of disposable cloths, bundles of wires and copper cables.

In recent months the department of the DGA that is responsible for inspections of shipments of metals in port terminals has discovered important shipments of scrap copper and other metals destined for export.

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