Customs Service collected over 20 billion lei

Chisinau, 4 October /MOLDPRES/- Customs Service revenues to the state budget in the first nine months of 2021 are estimated at over 20.2 billion lei / over 992 million euros /, increasing by about 27% compared to the revenues from the corresponding period of 2020 and by more than 12% of the budget burden set for the reference period.

At the same time, this September the Customs Service collected 2.8 billion lei from the state budget, the amount increasing by 28.7% compared to the same month of 2020 and by 32.7% compared to September 2019.

During the last month, 57,436 customs declarations were made, and the flow of means of transport constituted 288,959 crossings. The busiest customs posts remain Leuseni and Sculeni, with 72,632 and 50,142 crossings, respectively, according to the Customs Service.

"In the fight against fraud, during the period covered, 846 violations of customs legislation were found and fines amounting to over 1.5 million lei were applied. The most frequent violations refer to the exceeding of the term of being on the territory of the Republic of Moldova of the means of transport with foreign numbers, declared by action ”, according to the quoted source.

According to the Customs Service, in September, the officers of the Information Line responded to 2,111 requests for information related to the customs activity.

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