Importers of a consignment of detergents and some wine today filed a judicial protest calling on the Comptroller of Customs to release a consignment seized in 2007.

Priscilla Cassar and members of her family said that the detergents were seized in January 2007 along with wine and whisky which was being imported for private use.

The Comptroller of Customs had alleged that community law was being violated, but later in 2007, a court later in found no such violation.

The Comptroller of Customs appealed, and the Appeals Court upheld the decision of the first court last January. Yet the consignment had not yet been released.

Ms Cassar said the comptroller's actions were causing her damages because the detergents had a shelf life and she was being denied the proceeds from their sale.

She therefore asked the court to order the immediate release of the consignment.

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