ARMENIAN CUSTOMS THWART DRUGS SMUGGLING

Public Television of Armenia
April 9 2009

[Presenter] Import of narcotics has been thwarted at the Meghri
checkpoint [on the Armenian-Iranian border] and export of medication
without declaration has been thwarted at Zvatnots [international
airport in Yerevan]. The State Revenue Committee’s Smuggling and Double
Control Department officers, while conducting a customs search, found
22.8 grams of opium and 80 empty shells of medication in the pocket of
[name withheld] the driver of a Scania passenger bus.

At Zvartnots airport, officers of the named department found medication
in the luggage of a Russian Federation citizen [name withheld], who
had arrived on a Moscow-Yerevan flight. [Name withheld] was trying
to bring in 35 types of medication without declaring them.