Customs releases bullion van impounded with smuggled rice, ₦24m in Ogun

The Customs Area Controller, Olusola Alade, who disclosed this to newsmen in Abeokuta said the van was impounded after being found to contain 12 50kg bags of smuggled foreign parboiled rice.

He added that the van which was discovered to be belonging to an Abeokuta branch of Access Bank was also loaded with the sum of sum of N24.4 million.

The money and the bullion van, which has the registration number FKJ 993 BZ, have now been handed over to officials of Bankers Warehouse Ltd. and Access Bank in Abeokuta.