Customs crackdown on Chinese goods smuggling

[InTime News]

Greek customs authorities raided a warehouse successful Elefsina this week arsenic portion of a European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) probe into a smuggling ringing moving goods from China into Greece and the European Union. 

One institution worker was arrested, and warrants were issued for 4 shareholders, including a customs broker antecedently targeted by EPPO successful June, when €400,000 successful currency was seized from his car.

Seventeen containers of covering and shoes were discovered under a special tax regime, avoiding duties and VAT. Officials accidental the goods were illegally diverted to the Greek market, while managers planned a fake export to Africa utilizing containers filled with rags. “The boxes contained low-value garments used arsenic a front,” the Independent Authority for Public Revenue said.

Lost duties are estimated astatine much than €1.6 million. Authorities confirmed the cognition was coordinated with EPPO’s Athens office, which continues extended probes astatine Piraeus port.