Armenia's State Revenue Committee thwarts an attempt to smuggle over 6,300 packs of cigarettes from Iran (video)
YEREVAN, November 20. /ARKA/. Armenia's State Revenue Committee (SRC) has thwarted an attempt to smuggle a large consignment of cigarettes from Iran into the country.
According to the SRC, three trucks loaded with cement, belonging to the same importing company and arriving from Iran, were recently subjected to customs inspection at the Agarak checkpoint.
X-rays revealed that tobacco products were hidden in special compartments inside the trucks. Customs officers used a special cutting tool to extract a total of 6,530 packs of cigarettes without excise stamps.
The discovered tobacco products were confiscated. Customs reports have been drawn up against three Iranian citizens, and the case materials have been sent to the Legal Department of the SRC for further review.
The State Revenue Committee noted that over the past month, attempts to import a total of 31,830 packs of undeclared and concealed cigarettes from customs control were prevented at the Agarak customs checkpoint.-0-
