The Customs Authority begins implementing a plan to combat smuggling

Trebil border port with Jordan
 
12/08/2021

Economy News - Baghdad

On Thursday, the General Authority of Customs announced the start of implementing a plan to combat smuggling in customs areas.

A statement by the authority, seen by "Al-Iqtisad News", stated that "a plan developed by the authority has begun to activate the role of the investigation and anti-smuggling departments in all customs areas and under the direct supervision of the director general of the authority."

The statement added, "The plan comes to meet the challenges at the current stage and in order to advance customs work and confront smuggling of all kinds, which will be directly reflected in the protection of the country's economic and financial policy, and by providing the state treasury with customs revenues, as well as protecting the local product and preserving the safety of citizens from Substances unfit for human consumption.

He continued, "The Department of Investigation and Combating Smuggling in the Central Region Customs Directorate and the Northern Region Customs Directorate has begun expanding their scope of work through field controls, including the control of Mosul Dam and the control of the Kirkuk detachment."

And he stressed, that "several consignments were seized, including (construction equipment (cracker), mobile phone devices, powdered milk, communication towers and alabaster), in violation of the controls and instructions in force in accordance with Customs Law No. 23 of 1984.

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