GRA begins probe into alleged extortion by customs task force in Ashanti Region

The Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) has launched investigations into allegations of extortion levelled against immoderate officers of the Customs Division Task Force operating successful the Ashanti Region.

The allegation, made by the Traders Advocacy Group Ghana, subordinate to purported payments demanded from importers whose intercepted containers were en way to Kumasi. The officers allegedly claimed undervaluation and insisted connected further payments, which the affected importers described arsenic unjustified.

In a connection issued connected Thursday, November 27, the GRA said it takes the allegation earnestly and has initiated an interior probe to found the facts. According to the Authority, the probe volition beryllium thorough, and the nationalist volition beryllium informed of the result erstwhile it is completed.

The GRA reiterated its committedness to maintaining precocious standards of integrity, transparency, and accountability successful its operations.

“We impulse each stakeholders and the wide nationalist to enactment these efforts by reporting specified malpractices done established channels,” the connection added.