The Vyborg Customs authorities have called off their decision to assign escort vehicles to accompany Finnish trucks to their destinations in Russia. No reason was given for the overturning of the week-old injunction.
Seventeen Finnish transport operators, among others, were assigned compulsory escorts to their Russian destinations as a "measure of assurance related to an administrative customs offence indictment".
Russian Customs claim that according to a document revision, there were several TIR transports last spring that disappeared between the Torfyanovka border point and their declared destination, which in most cases was Moscow.
Russian Customs saw that based on the Russian customs codex and the international TIR agreement, the assigning of escort vehicles was legitimate.
So far, Vyborg Customs have filed 80 customs offence cases at the Vyborg Court. All told, some 220 TIR transports carried out by Finnish hauliers are under suspicion.
