The National Board of Revenue (NBR) yesterday cancelled appointment of Cotecna Inspection SA, a pre-shipment inspection (PSI) company, on charge of violating laws and regulations.

The decision came into effect yesterday, an NBR statement said. NBR sources said some 64,000 allegations of irregularities and corruption were lodged with it against the PSI company. The NBR recently found Cotecna involved in serious irregularities including evading duty by giving false information in import inspections, particularly for sports utility vehicles (SUV) like Hummer seized from high-profile corruption suspects. BIVAC International SA replaced Cotecna for pre-shipment inspection of imported goods from B Block countries like China, Thailand, Korea, the Philippines and Cambodia and SGS Societe, Switzerland for D Block countries including Japan, Hong Kong, Australia and Taiwan.