30 billion rials fine for fuel and gold smugglers in East Azerbaijan

Tabriz- The director general of East Azarbaijan State Penitentiary has announced that the offenders of two cases of smuggling oil products in the Middle East and foreign gold in Tabriz have been sentenced to pay more than 30 billion and 436 million Rials in fines.

According to Mehr reporter, Samad Hazrati announced the details of two smuggling cases in the province in a conversation with reporters on Saturday afternoon: In one of these cases, the offender was sentenced to pay a fine of 2.619 million Rials for smuggling more than 366 liters of diesel fuel in the city of Mianeh.

He added: After the discovery of the suspicious cargo by the intelligence officers and the report of the police force, this case was referred to government sanctions and based on Article 18 of the Law on Combating Goods and Currency Smuggling, a legal order was issued and executed.

The Director General of State Penalties of East Azerbaijan emphasized on the legal treatment of violations in the field of petroleum products, pointing out that the fine determined in the case of fuel smuggling includes the value of the goods and related costs and the fines related to the vehicle carrying the cargo.

Hazrati also announced the issuance and finalization of the foreign gold smuggling case in Tabriz and said: "In this case, five strings of smuggled foreign gold necklaces were discovered, and the sixth branch of special trial for dealing with violations of goods and foreign currency smuggling of Tabriz city, after examining the documents and confirming the violation, sentenced the accused to pay 27 billion and 817 million Rials in cash to the government fund, in addition to confiscating the discovered gold for the benefit of the government.

He stated that dealing with the smuggling of goods and currency is one of the priorities of the government's punishments, he emphasized on the continuation of monitoring and legal investigation of economic violations in East Azerbaijan.

Hazrati added: According to the announced verdicts, the total fines of these two cases reach 30 billion and 436 million rials.