Ask a legal question, get an answer ASAP!
Click here to chat with a lawyer about your rights.

Terms Used In 5 Guam Code Ann. § 73136

  • Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
  • Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
If any consignor, seller, owner, importer, consignee, agent, or other person or persons enters or introduces, or attempts to enter or introduce into the commerce of Guam any imported merchandise by means of any fraudulent or false declaration, affidavit, letter, paper or by means of any false statement, written or verbal, or by means of any false or fraudulent practice or appliance whatsoever, or makes any false statement in any declaration without reasonable cause to believe the truth of such statement, or is guilty of any wilful act or omission by means whereof the government of Guam is affected by such act or omission, such merchandise or the value thereof, to be recovered from such person or persons, shall be subject to forfeiture, which forfeiture shall only apply to the whole of the merchandise or the value thereof in the case or package containing the particular article or articles of merchandise to which such fraud or false paper or statement relates. The arrival within the territorial limits of Guam of any merchandise consigned for sale and remaining the property of the shipper or consignor, and the acceptance of a false or fraudulent invoice thereof by the consignee or the agent of the consignor, or the existence of any other facts constituting an attempted fraud, shall be deemed, for the purpose of this section, to be an attempt to enter such merchandise notwithstanding no actual entry has been made or offered.

SOURCE: GC § 47134.