The CDEK cargo and document delivery service reported violations at customs at Moscow airports, as well as at the aviation customs post of the Electronic Declaration Center (CED). RBC was told about this in the company’s press service and added that the Moscow prosecutor’s office had initiated an audit. In particular, CDEK spoke about the delay in jamon, which customers ordered from Spain before the New Year. The company also complained about the refusal to import more than 70 tons of goods from a Chinese online store. Due to the import ban, the company, according to it, lost 500 thousand rubles. The money went to pay for a temporary storage refrigerator at Vnukovo airport.
In March, CDEK complained to the transport prosecutor’s office, the Moscow prosecutor’s office for overseeing the implementation of laws in air and water transport, the Western Interregional Investigation Department for Transport of the Investigative Committee, and the Anti-Corruption Department of the Federal Customs Service about the detention of the cargo of some of its clients.
“At the customs post in Vnukovo, due to constant refusals to export return orders and other parcels from Russia, the work of CDEK has been suspended since August, the last time the company issued declarations here in December 2021,” the company said.
After the intervention of the Prosecutor General’s Office, which initiated large-scale inspections at Vnukovo and Sheremetyevo airports, the import and export of goods was resumed. However, the company notes, with delays and additional requests.
In particular, the ban on the delivery of jamon has been lifted. However, customs at the cargo terminal of Sheremetyevo Airport, according to the company, are still detaining 17 parcels of jamon, which have been stored there since December.
