Passport data of the persons who enter the Transnistrian region are being stocked in the databases of the migration checkpoints administrated by the separatist authorities of the Transnistrian region, Info-Prim Neo's correspondent reports. According to sources within the region's conscription centers, the system is conceived to automatically detect persons bound to military service and disseminate the information through a network to all the agencies of the unrecognized republic's defense ministry. The procedure is part of a new program meant to ensure the security of the region, going under the codename Sprut (Octopus). Now the employees of the identification evidence centers will be able to check in a computerized manner whether the persons who enter the Transnistrian region hold a military service record card, amid a pronounced trend of scrutiny for entries and exits of military men to and out of the region. Until 1 January 2008, foreign citizens, as well as the residents of the right side of the Nistru, were obliged to pay a migration tax of about half a dollar. The Transnistrian legislative body annulled the tax, but replaced it with a registration tax. In addition, the persons who don't reside in Transnistria have to complete a migration card.