The customs office employs 22 workers who have previously been held criminally liable. This fact, according to ZIK, was reported at a meeting of the media club "Open Region" by the prosecutor of Volyn, Mykola Frantovskyi. In particular, he noted: "The customs office employs 22 workers who have previously been held criminally liable, against whom there are verdicts, and the cases were closed due to amnesty." Mykola Frantovskyi reported that during 2001-2005, 24 criminal cases were opened against 33 Volyn customs officers. Given these figures, the prosecutor asked: "If we are fighting smuggling, then how is the customs office's internal security fighting this?" Incidentally, since the start of the "Stop Smuggling" program, 198 trips by the interdepartmental mobile group have been carried out in the region. As a result, smuggled goods worth more than 6 million 300 thousand hryvnias were seized. In addition, the activity of a number of smuggling channels that ran through Volyn was exposed and shut down.