The Customs Service in January collected 1.428 billion lei into the state budget, an increase of 6% compared with the corresponding period last year, IPN reports, with reference to a press release of the institution.

Almost 500 violations of the customs legislation were identified last month. Among the most frequent ones were the nonobservance of the period of stay on Moldova’s territory for motor vehicles with foreign license plates and of the transit period or the period for submitting a customs declaration, non-declaring or inaccurate declaring of consumer goods.

Fines totaling 1.3 million lei were imposed in the period.

The Leușeni and Sculeni customs posts were the most popular frontier posts in January.