Russia reveals fraudulent scheme for customs clearance of cars from Armenia

The Russian customs began to record cases of fraud with an underestimation of the cost during customs clearance of cars that enter the country as part of "grey" and parallel imports.

As Gazeta.ru found out, in most cases the problem concerns the supply of foreign cars to Russia from Armenia and Kyrgyzstan, but there are also cases with cars from other EAEU countries.

The Federal Customs Service (FCS) warned that unscrupulous importers would have to pay the difference from the lowered customs rate. If they do not do this, cars can be confiscated from individual buyers, lawyers say, and legal entities can be fined in the amount of double the cost of the goods.

“There are problems with the underestimation of the cost of cars. Customs authorities are detecting cases of declaring passenger cars in the member states of the Eurasian Economic Union with signs of false information about their value, ”an official representative of the customs service told the publication.

The interlocutor of the publication in the Federal Customs Service specified that the identification of facts of manipulation with prices by the customs administrations of the countries where the declaration was carried out occurs after the release of goods into circulation. Those who try to cheat will still be punished since the declarant is responsible for the inaccuracy of the information.

“In such cases, all payable customs payments will be collected from the declarant in full in the EAEU states where the customs clearance of cars was carried out,” the FCS warned.