Police find more beer cans near Villimale’
09 Jun 2013, 7:21 PM
Ahmed Nazeer
Residents of Villimale have alerted police after 52 cans of beer were found washed up on the island, following an operation to recover some 19,200 cans that fell into the sea from a dhoni travelling to Hulhule’ from Male’’s commercial port.
The police were called early on Friday morning by a group of people on Villimale’ after they found the cans near the boat yard on the island.
The Maldives Customs Department recently issued a statement claiming the beer cans found floating near Male’ were being transferred to a bonded warehouse in Hulhule’ from Male’, but said the dhoni carrying the beer cans lost balance and 800 cases fell into the sea.
Customs said the beer cans were a shipment imported to the Maldives for resort business and had cleared the customs examination procedure.
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