Head of Customs Control Department Lieutenant Colonel Iyad Adra revealed that the police have achieved more than 900 million pounds of smuggling cases and reconciliations over the past four months, including about 700 million pounds of smuggling cases, and about 200 million pounds from the Bureau of cutting, indicating that there is a case of severe Dealing with the phenomenon of smuggling, and that any case is seized follow-up, and dealt with in accordance with the laws and laws and can not be tolerated, and that there is no place for nepotism in cases of smuggling.

Regarding the most important smuggling cases organized by the control officer, the lieutenant colonel said that the last one was to seize a truck loaded with expired paints on the international road at Homs coming from Lattakia and heading towards the local markets in Damascus, with a tonnage of more than 11 tons. To take special measures in such cases against the merchant owner of the goods, also seized the issue of a warehouse containing spare parts smuggled cars in addition to quantities of sesame material, as well as a banana truck smuggled and many of the issues that are organized by the police officers such as cloth rolls and others.

He pointed out that the smuggling movement decreased recently because of the intensity of the campaign carried out by customs and smugglers deliberately to change their methods and exercise a lot of caution and caution when introducing and transporting smugglers, stressing that customs are not aimed through intensive campaigns and tightening in dealing with the phenomenon of smuggling to confuse commercial activity, but the implementation of economic policy And to protect the national industry and the Syrian pound, especially as the country is going through a difficult economic situation due to the economic blockade imposed on the country for years.

Source: Al Watan Newspaper

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