YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 13, NOYAN TAPAN. Employees of the State Customs Committee (SCC) adjunct to the RA Government recently discovered 7 tons of smuggled foodstuffs, mainly fish products, fruits and sweets. According to the SCC press service, during the examination of the luggage of Tbilisi-Yerevan train passenger Artak Mnatskanian, an Armenian citizen, at the Yerevan railway station, employees of the SCC Department for Fight against Smuggling found 150 kg (5 bags) of lemon that were not customs cleared. 100 kg of not customs cleared frozen scomber fish was discovered in the luggage of Armenian citizen Ashot Saloyan at the same railway station. Investigation in the above mentioned cases is underway. 400 kg of chocolate candies and 50 kg of baby food imported from Georgia without being customs cleared were found in GAZ-24 car of Armenian citizen Suren Hovhannisian from the village of Maisyan (Shirak marz). According to him, an acquaintance of his offered him to transport the food to the town of Ashots (Shirak marz) at a reasonable price, without customs clearing. According to the experts, some of the candies were not fresh and for that reason not firt for price estimation, while the market value of the remaining part of candies and baby food was assessed at about 1 mln drams. S. Hovhannisian was subjected to administrative liability.

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