Officers of the National Anticorruption Center and anticorruption prosecutors are performing searches at an internal customs post amid suspicions of acts of passive corruption involving customs brokers and business entities, IPN reports.
According to press officer of the National Anticorruption Center Angela Starinski, a scheme was allegedly employed to regularly levy “protection” taxes from representatives of companies that import goods. The money was collected for hastening the customs procedures, for not physically checking the imported goods and for giving the declared merchandise tariff positions favorable to importers.
