In the side lines of Resistance Economy Meeting, Masoud Karbasian pointed to the recent measures as to electronic activity of customs, mentioning that electronic connection for receiving cargos' information since loading in origins and also electronic connection with banks and Ministry of Industry is available now.
"Electronic customs can help us to assess import cargos to the country before their arrival to destinations and it is possible that the type of crimes change due to the new approach, but the capability rate of customs offenses discovery will increase by the use of this system", Minister of Economic Affairs said.
"Discoveries of narcotics and drug precursors have reached 63 thousand killos by new system. Furthermore, human trafficking has been stopped by installing x-ray machines in customs", Karbasin stated.
He referred to the Supreme Leader' recommendation concerning powerful x-ray machines in customs, expressing two high speed x-ray machines have been installed in customs so far and the third is on the way. The official said we have made a contract with domestic manufacturers and it is expected that from Bahman month (February, 2018) installing domestic x-ray machines will start.