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1658 liters of alcohol, traded and stored in violation of the Excise Duties and Tax Warehouses Act, were detained by customs officers during inspections in the Black Sea area for only two days. Two separate inspections were carried out - at a hotel, as well as in a restaurant and tax warehouse, the Customs Agency reported.

Three tons of smuggled tobacco for shisha were detained by customs officers at the port of Burgas, reports Darik.

Bulgaria seized 638 248 fake goods - articles violating intellectual property rights - at its borders in 2016, a number that is about the half the amount the country confiscated in 2015, according to a report released by the European Commission on July 20, quoted by the Independent Balkan News Agency.

Customs officials from Lom have retained 266 liters of home-made alcohol (rakia) after they posed themselves as customers who want to buy alcohol, officials from the Customs Agency said. Reported SEGA. 

Policemen from Vidin participated in the action. A sale of home-made rakia has been posted on two websites. The customs officers contacted the seller and agreed to buy 10 liters.

Serbian Customs officers have discovered and seized "more than four tons of goods suspected to be violating intellectual property rights."

The Customs Administration announced this on Friday, specifying that a Macedonian number plates truck carrying the goods - 7,600 items, mostly clothes, bags, and shoes - was traveling from Turkey to Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Bulgaria has arrested 22 customs officers at Kapitan Andreevo, the main checkpoint on the border with Turkey, and charged them with corruption.

The officers are charged with forming an organized criminal group, involved in taking bribes, which was operating since March 2015.

Customs officials arrested a 30-year-old Armenian man at Piraeus port on Friday after discovering more than 1,230 cardboard boxes of contraband cigarettes in a shipping container that had arrived from China.

Bulgaria's parliamentary Budget and Finance Committee will review Thursday a proposal for changes to the Customs Act.

The changes are to allow customs officers to conduct operative and search activities, according to reports of the Bulgarian National Radio.

The Lesovo border crossing between Bulgaria and Turkey was opened after a 15-hour operation against corrupt customs officers, said the Prosecutor's Office.

The operation, which started shortly before midnight on November 2, was coordinated by Chief Prosecutor Sotir Tsatsarov and Vladimir Pisanchev, head of the National Security Agency (DANS).

Bulgarian customs officers at the Lesovo border crossing with Turkey apprehended almost 5 M fake Russian excise labels for tobacco products and 470 vials with adrenaline, said the Customs Agency.