Baku, Azerbaijan, June 18
By Elnur Baghishov – Trend:
The goods and currencies worth $12.5 billion are smuggled through Iran's border per year, head of Iran's Committee on Combating Illegal Trade in Products and Foreign Currency, Ali Muayyidi Khurramabadi, said.
The illegal trade figures are very big and must be minimized, Khurramabadi added, Trend reports referring to IRNA.
Khurramabadi added that the problems with production and employment occurred as a result of illicit trade.
Seventeen percent account for illegal trade in Iran, he said.