RA STATE CUSTOMS COMMITTEE TIGHTENS CONTROL AT ALL BORDER CUSTOMS POINTS

Noyan Tapan
Nov 28 2007

YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 28, NOYAN TAPAN. The RA State Customs Committee (SCC)
has tightened control at all the border customs points and over the
import of goods in the Yerevan-Tbilisi passenger train. The head of
the SCC control department Levon Karapetian said at the November 28
press conference that the tightening of control is related to brisk
trade and an increase of imports before New Year.

According to him, 31 customs violation cases of a total of 12 million
drams were prevented this year in the Yerevan-Tbilisi passenger train,
with criminal procedures being initiated in connection with 3 cases.

Confectionery and citrus fruit are mainly smuggled into Armenia in a
train by putting them in a hiding place. The department head said that
in order to avoid such cases, a goods wagon is hitched to the train,
and passangers have to put there their goods with a weight of over
50 kg and a value of over 150 thousand drams.