Do not wear excessive gold when arriving from overseas: Fin. Ministry

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State Finance Minister Ranjith Siyambalapitiya said that immediate action will be taken to enforce the law against people who come to Sri Lanka from abroad wearing gold jewellery for smuggling purpose, exceeding the limits.

He said country is incurring about USD 30 million in losses per month due to smuggling of gold into the country.

The minister said that these traffickers have already been identified and that necessary legal measures will be taken against them immediately. However, he emphasized that common passengers will not be affected due to this. (DSB)

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Mohamed Friday, 14 October 2022 12:00 PM

You simplify the law and taxing and people will do the right way. When you have a bunch of thieves running the country, what confidence people have?

Citizen Friday, 14 October 2022 12:29 PM

Always the ministry and media gives only half cooked news. Is it not possible to mentioned the allowed gold weight in the news so the general public will be aware. Media should focus on awareness, not just posting news.

Lumbini Friday, 14 October 2022 12:31 PM

Tell us the acceptable level of jewelry we could wear.

sam Friday, 14 October 2022 12:54 PM

What is the limit per person?

Spartacus Friday, 14 October 2022 01:06 PM

If the traffickers have been identified wtf are you still fiddling with your B

tilak Friday, 14 October 2022 01:07 PM

Is this restriction applicable to the Royal family also?

Premalal Perera Friday, 14 October 2022 02:29 PM

After running this great nation to ground, all what you can do is harassing harass hardworking people. Not much time left for you crooks.

Buddhist Friday, 14 October 2022 07:15 PM

Check all MPs and Ministers and other diplomatic passport-holding family members they are the ones who are smuggling.

Dee Friday, 14 October 2022 09:18 PM

Wonder if they wear the same amount of jewelry when going to the loo. The extent people go to smuggle. Then put forward blimey excuse such as 'religion' , 'tradition' . Next level would be to get a certificate from some crack astrologer to say that the bearer needs to be clad in 50 or so gold sovereign to ward off some evil!

Niroshan Friday, 14 October 2022 09:56 PM

Custom officers are only second to politicians when it comes to corruption, why don't they start from there (politicians and custom officers)?

joshua Saturday, 15 October 2022 01:48 PM

Check Mahinda's hand first without talking nonsense

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