Clients must apply to three separate Customs and Tax Offices to access these programs.

Customs and tax office workers were also on strike, while about 350 retirees demonstrated outside the Finance Ministry against the latest pension cuts and tax increases.

Mass walkouts in Greece in recent days have at times shut down public services, closing schools, customs and tax offices, halting public transport and grounding flights, in response to austerity measures.

The guilty officials worked for the ministries of public economy and privatization, defense, justice, employment, and immigration, as well as in the courts and in regional customs and tax offices, the paper said.

On one hand, to improve controls over the real situation of deliveries abroad, and to improve the sharing of information available to customs and tax offices; in other words improve the exchange of information between States.

Niger operates a Nigerien Ports Authority station, as well as customs and tax offices in a section of Cotonou's port, so that imports and exports can be directly transported between Gaya and the port.

CICIG has gained the endorsement of the private sector for its recent work against graft in the Customs and Tax Offices.