EVADING CUSTOMS PAYMENTS
FRAUDULENT IMPORTERS FINED. Sydney, April 29. Two Sydney agents of a London firm exporting goods to Australia chiefly from Germany and Switzerland, pleaded guilty to several charges of evading) payment of customs duties and making false entries on invoices with intent to defraud the revenue. Each was fined £lOO and costs. Counsel prosecuting on behalf of the Commonwealth authorities described the case a H premediated and systematic fraud hr reducing the value of the goods shown on the invoices. It had been proceeding for three years. He read correspondence from the agents to their principals disclosing the methods to be adopted.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVI, Issue 113, 30 April 1926, Page 3
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