SARAJEVO, March 11 (Hina) - Pursuant to an action by customs authorities in the Bosnian Federation a vehicle-smuggling chain in the Moslem-Croat entity of Bosnia-Herzegovina has been severed, Sarajevo's daily "Dnevni avaz" said
Saturday. According to the daily, customs officials spent several months investigating and confirmed rumours that people in any part of the entity could for only several hundred Deutch marks receive a certificate about paid customs and taxes for any imported vehicle, notwithstanding its true value. There have been examples of customs and taxes paid for brand new Mercedes' of DM200 or 300. Based on false customs certificates issued by customs offices in the Livno and Central Bosnia cantons, about 310 imported vehicles have been registered. It has been assessed that the budget of the Bosnian Federation has thus been cheated for at least DM2 million. This information, however, only pertains to
SARAJEVO, March 11 (Hina) - Pursuant to an action by customs
authorities in the Bosnian Federation a vehicle-smuggling chain in
the Moslem-Croat entity of Bosnia-Herzegovina has been severed,
Sarajevo's daily "Dnevni avaz" said Saturday.
According to the daily, customs officials spent several months
investigating and confirmed rumours that people in any part of the
entity could for only several hundred Deutch marks receive a
certificate about paid customs and taxes for any imported vehicle,
notwithstanding its true value.
There have been examples of customs and taxes paid for brand new
Mercedes' of DM200 or 300.
Based on false customs certificates issued by customs offices in
the Livno and Central Bosnia cantons, about 310 imported vehicles
have been registered. It has been assessed that the budget of the
Bosnian Federation has thus been cheated for at least DM2 million.
This information, however, only pertains to a third of processed
suspect customs certificates.
The investigation so far uncovered three groups of people who
mediated in these illegal transactions.
The daily's source from the customs administration claims that all
vehicles registered by false certificates would be confiscated.
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