Baku, Azerbaijan, Sep. 22
By Khalid Kazimov – Trend:
Iranian customs officers in collaboration with intelligence ministry and police have seized a consignment of cloth, worth an estimate of $6.8 million, YJC news website reported.
The smugglers planned to move the consignment in Iran's capital of Tehran.
The new Iranian Minister of Industry, Mine, and Trade Mohammad Shariatmadari earlier said that about 90 percent of foreign goods offered in the Iranian market have been smuggled into the country.
Back in May, the Iranian central task force for combating smuggling of commodities and currency has said that about $12 billion worth of goods were smuggled into the country over the last fiscal year (20 March 2016/2017).