New customs system is paying off

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The betterment launched successful Greece’s customs systems by the Independent Authority for Public Revenue (AADE) has begun to yield results successful terms of some improved show and the detection of violations.

Last week, customs inspectors from AADE uncovered 1 of the largest smuggling cases, pursuing a targeted probe astatine a logistics warehouse successful Elefsina.

The smuggled products, of Chinese origin, chiefly covering and footwear, were intended for organisation successful the home marketplace without paying customs duties and VAT. Two weeks earlier the European Public Prosecutor’s Office had detected customs fraud successful Piraeus, and then, successful collaboration with AADE, 2,435 containers were seized, while two customs officers and 4 customs agents were charged with illegally importing products.

All this followed the transition to “new procreation customs,” which has been under way for two years with two main pillars: connected the 1 hand, the centralization of customs procedures, enabling nationwide management, and connected the other, the simplification of bureaucracy by simplifying procedures, cutting work time, and ensuring transparency, marketplace sources note.