{"id":237994,"date":"2026-07-02T16:59:58","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T14:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-kra-destroys-illicit-goods-worth-sh218mn-in-crackdown\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T16:59:58","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T14:59:58","slug":"kenya-kra-destroys-illicit-goods-worth-sh218mn-in-crackdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-kra-destroys-illicit-goods-worth-sh218mn-in-crackdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: KRA Destroys Illicit Goods Worth Sh218mn in Crackdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Nairobi \u2014 The Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA), working with other government agencies, has destroyed contraband goods worth Sh218 million seized during enforcement operations in Nairobi and the Coast region.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">The exercise was conducted at Envirosafe Limited in Athi River and a destruction site in Voi, Taita-Taveta County, involving confiscated beer, spirits and bottled water.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">According to KRA, investigations found the products had breached excise and tax laws through the use of counterfeit excise&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202607020535.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi \u2014 The Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA), working with other government agencies, has destroyed contraband goods worth Sh218 million seized during enforcement operations in Nairobi and the Coast region. The exercise was conducted at Envirosafe Limited in Athi River and a destruction site in Voi, Taita-Taveta County, involving confiscated beer, spirits and bottled water. According [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,14409,11462,8240,9926,4688,430,28243,257,54756,254,5084],"class_list":["post-237994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-crackdown","tag-destroys","tag-goods","tag-illicit","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-kra","tag-news","tag-sh218mn","tag-south-africa-today","tag-worth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}