{"id":23328,"date":"2021-05-11T11:11:10","date_gmt":"2021-05-11T06:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/?p=23328"},"modified":"2021-05-11T11:11:10","modified_gmt":"2021-05-11T06:41:10","slug":"smuggled-goods-worth-70m-confiscated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/23328\/smuggled-goods-worth-70m-confiscated\/","title":{"rendered":"Smuggled goods worth $70m confiscated"},"content":{"rendered":"
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TEHRAN \u2013 Some 2.9 trillion rials (nearly $70 million at the official rate of 42,000 rials) worth of smuggled goods have been seized across the country.<\/p>\n

The first phase of a nationwide plan to intensify the fight against smuggling goods was implemented across the country last week, Mohammad Reza Moghimi, the police chief, said on Monday.<\/p>\n

Under the plan, police detectives identified the location of the depot through round-the-clock efforts and specialized actions, he explained.<\/p>\n

He went on to say that essential goods worth 2.9 trillion rials (nearly $70 million) have been discovered and 1,152 criminals and 690 vehicles were arrested during the implementation of the plan.<\/p>\n

The discovered goods were handed over to the Organization for Collection and Sale of State-owned Properties of Iran, and the smugglers were arrested and handed over to the judicial authorities, he explained.<\/p>\n

President Hassan Rouhani has urged a systematic fight against smuggling \u201cfrom the start to the endpoint\u201d, citing the fight as a key factor in improving Iran\u2019s economy in July 2019.<\/p>\n

Rouhani said while Iran is under sanctions, extra care should be given to stopping the smuggling of \u201chard-won\u201d currency.<\/p>\n

Every year, $20-25 billion are smuggled in and out of the country, which, if stopped, will create hundreds of thousands of jobs, Hassan Norouzi, a member of the Parliament, said.<\/p>\n

In the Iranian calendar year 1396 (March 2017-March 2018), $12 billion was smuggled into Iran and $900 million out of the country, according to the Headquarters for Combating the Smuggling of Commodities and Foreign Exchange.<\/p>\n

According to some reports, over ten million liters of gasoline are smuggled out of Iran on a daily basis, adding up to 3.65 billion liters every year. Other reports put the number higher. On December 19, 2018, a government spokesman said every day 11.5 million liters of gasoline are smuggled out of Iran. Ali Adyani, a member of the Iranian Parliament’s Energy Committee has quoted various sources as putting the figure at 10, 15, and even 20 million liters a day.<\/p>\n

Mohammad Hassan Nejad, another member of the committee, says the smuggled fuel amounts to 22 million liters per day. With a 50 cent per liter profit, the total daily income adds up to 400 trillion rials annually or $3.3 billion, nearly the same as the country’s annual development budget.<\/p>\n

In addition to gasoline smuggling, other fuels such as kerosene and diesel are also smuggled; not in lesser quantities.<\/p>\n

In June 2020, the first phase of the national anti-smuggling plan has been implemented with the priority of customs, tobacco, and transit goods nationwide.<\/p>\n

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TEHRAN \u2013 Some 2.9 trillion rials (nearly $70 million at the official rate of 42,000 rials) worth of smuggled goods have been seized across the country. The first phase of a nationwide plan to intensify the fight against smuggling goods was implemented across the country last week, Mohammad Reza Moghimi, the police chief, said on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy-and-markets-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}