Volyn Customs transferred more than UAH 19 million in customs payments to Ukraine's State Budget in May 2005.

The Volyn Customs Office transferred more than 19 million customs payments to the State Budget of Ukraine in May 2005, reports the press service of the State Customs Service. Compared to the corresponding period last year, transfers increased by almost 47%. In total, this year over five months, more than 74 million 400 thousand hryvnias came to the state budget from the Volyn Customs Office, which significantly exceeds the assigned target.

\n \nAs of today, the Volyn Customs Office cooperates with more than three thousand subjects of foreign economic activity. The main importers in May were "Volynavtomotoservis", LuAZ and VKF "Kovel", and the exporters were "Komo-Export", "Syry Volyni", "Kaskad-Prodakshyn", Kamin-Kashyrskyi, Lyubeshiv and Ratne state forestry enterprises.

\n \nIn May, 7 cases of violation of customs rules were recorded at the Volyn Customs Office for the amount of more than one million 400 thousand hryvnias. Since the beginning of the year, there have been 90 such cases for the amount of almost 2 million 148 thousand. In addition, in 2005 the Volyn Customs Office opened 8 criminal cases on the fact of illegal transportation of drugs.