Safir Arjan specified the legal duty of marine iPhones: it is not a property finder!

Following the publication of the news about the sinking of a ship in the Persian Gulf and the removal of a number of iPhone 18 by fishermen, Safir Arjan announced in a report that: Article 157 of the Customs Law defines the legal framework for the delivery, storage and assignment of goods taken from the water.

Ambassador Arjan asked the finders of marine iPhones to immediately hand them over to the customs so that they can be sold after a year by the "authorized institution of Wali Faqih".

According to Ambassador Arjan, following the publication of news about the sinking of a ship in the Persian Gulf and the recovery of a number of iPhone 18 by fishermen, Ambassador Arjan announced in a report that: Article 157 of the Customs Law defines the legal framework for the delivery, storage and assignment of goods taken from the water.

According to Article 157 of the Law on Customs Affairs, persons who take out domestic or foreign goods from territorial and border waters are obliged to deliver them to the nearest customs office. The customs must immediately prepare a meeting report including the specifications and characteristics of the goods, and after registering in the warehouse office and issuing a warehouse receipt, announce the facts in a widely circulated newspaper.

According to this article, the people who consider themselves the owner of the discovered goods have one year from the date of publication of the advertisement to submit ownership documents to the customs office.

In the case of foreign goods, the payment of import duties and the costs of removing the goods from the water and other related costs are also foreseen for its clearance.

Therefore, if it is confirmed that the discovered iPhone 18s are subject to Article 157 of the Customs Law, the mere removal of these goods from the water does not mean that they are owned by the finders, and their legal assignment must be determined in the manner prescribed in this article.

According to this article, if no one goes to the customs office to claim the goods by the end of the one-year period, the goods will be considered to be of unknown ownership, and after the sale by the legal guardian, the related costs will be paid from the place of sale.

Also, the second note of Article 157 stipulates that perishable goods and goods whose storage creates additional costs or risks shall be sold according to the relevant regulations and the resulting funds shall be kept as a deposit until the final assignment is determined.