YEREVAN, JUNE 29, ARMENPRESS: In close cooperation with their Georgian counterparts Armenian customs officials prevented an attempt of smuggling around 201,000 fake excise stamps into the country. Gevorg Safarian, head of a customs service department, said today that the stamps were discovered on June 15 in a Turkish Mercedes bus bound for Armenia at a border checkpoint on border with Georgia. The stamps for strong alcoholic drinks were printed in Turkey.
The driver of the bus, a Turkish citizen Sayid Aygun, said a friend in Turkish city of Trabzon asked him to hand over the stamps, hidden in two boxes, to a Yerevan resident Arsen, saying that the boxes contained shirt labels. The driver was given the telephone number of Arsen to get in touch. Aygun claimed he learned what the boxes had only when his bus was checked by Armenian customs officers. Safarian said prosecutors have arrested Arsen and are making investigation into the case. He said the damages that the government could sustain if the faked stamps were not revealed could amount to more than 1000 million Drams.
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