Armenia's State Revenue Committee officers, in conjunction with officers at the Bagratashen customs checkpoint on the border with Georgia, have detected pharmaceutical drugs hidden from customs inspection, on a bus coming to Armenia from Turkey.
A total of 3.5kg pharmaceutical drugs hidden from customs control were found in the cargo of an Armenian citizen passenger, the SRC said.
This person said he was unaware of the presence of these pharmaceutical drugs, that another passenger of this bus had given them to him as an accompanying cargo, and upon the instruction of the founder director of the company conducting the given passenger transportation.
The pharmaceutical drugs have been confiscated and a report on violation of customs rules has been prepared. The items have been sent to the corresponding SRC division, News.am reported.