ATTEMPS TO SMUGGLE CITRUS FRUIT AND NUTS BECOME FREQUENT OM
PRE-HOLIDAY DAYS
YEREVAN, DECEMBER 22, NOYAN TAPAN. Employees of the RA State Customs
Committee (SCC) have recently discovered over 150 tons of citrus fruit
and nuts, particularly oranges, tangerines, pineapples and nuts, which
have been smuggled into Armenia. NT was informed by the SCC press
service that 38 cases of customs violation were revealed in the
Tbilisi-Yerevan train. Besides, an attempt was made to smuggle
pineapples and tangerines from Georgia by the Debed River, while in
another case customs employees prevented an attempt to smuggle friut
from Georgia by a bypass in a tractor.
99 cases of smuggling foofstuffs have been registered this year,
including 7 cases of smuggling 100 kg of red and black caviar.