Cargo From Ghana: Smoked rats, Flying Dogs & Live Snails

Cargo From Ghana: Disgusting Fund At Germany/D?sseldorf Airport By Customs

Disgusting Fund at Dusseldorf Airport: Customs has drawn hundreds of kilograms of smoked cane rats(grass-cutters), Flying-dog(big-bats) meat and living snails out of the air traffic.

The cargo was hidden in a "vegetable" broadcast from Ghana and intended for a Ghanaian dealer in Dortmund.

According to the Customs in D?sseldorf/Germany, the Ghanaian dealers from Dortmund in Germany by declaring his 45 African cartons from Ghana, the Customs discovered a total delivery which contained 110 pounds of smoked fish and 10 kilos of meat including fried flying foxes and cane-rats.

A veterinarian declared the entire meat for not importable. The immediate destruction is costing the dealer more than 800 ? Dortmund.

As another "delicacy" were two baskets full of living agate snails, which were intended to be eaten. The animals are not one of the protected species, but from food-legal point of view they were still not allowed to be imported. They were given out for their existence in quarantine at a zoo.

In addition, the shipment contained also 209 packets with unknown drugs. Here the official pharmacist must check the import capability and decide if the dealer is due to a criminal case.

Finally the show were still at nearly 300 undeclared packs of cosmetics, liquor and DVDs. For this purpose the Ghanaian trader in Dortmund/Germany still threatens an investigation for tax evasion.

Is it allowed by our Customs(CEPS) in Ghana?

FRANCIS TAWIAH (Duisburg-Germany)