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him for over an hour. He said police gave him the option to be questioned at a police station or a neutral location. He chose the latter and was accompanied by his lawyer.

In the first official confirmation of the criminal probe, Deputy Commissioner of Police Leamond Deleveaux said yesterday that more than 75 people

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customers left frustrated a s courier comPany closes

By LYNAIRE MUNNINGS Tribune Staff Reporter lmunnings@tribunemedia.net

COURIER company Blue Postal is closing the “clearance/courier arm” of its Bahamian operations. Some customers awaiting overdue packages received notices of the plan this week.

However, Blue Postal officials could not be reached for information up to press time yesterday.

News of the company’s purported plans comes after The Tribune reported last week that several companies had been temporarily barred from clearing imported shipments because of allegedly failing to pay taxes to the government.

Simon Wilson, the Ministry of Finance’s financial

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‘Hundreds of millions of tax dollars’ owed to govt

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