CUSTOMS FRAUDS.
—-o : j IN UNITED STATES. MANY BIG IMPORTERS PROSECUTED. OFFICIALS AND BRIBES. (By Telegraph—Proas Association—Oopyrleht.l Now York, October 12. Ik is reported that Mr. W. Loob,. Collector of Customs at Now York, ie indicting a hundred importers, including thirty fashionable dressmakers. . Detectives traced two hundred trunks containing French millinery and lingerie, on which thero should have been ipaid X 400.000, but which escapcd duty thrbngh being left in tho Customs until the consignors demanded them. Mr. Loob believes the Treasury lost two mil lions sterling in recent years by- this kind of fraud alone. ' 1 Twenty officials of the weighing department have heen indicted for accepting bribes in connection with the importation of produce.
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 637, 14 October 1909, Page 7
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