Saeima votes against merging Finance Police with Customs Police

  • 2016-09-22
  • BNS/TBT Staff
RIGA - Saeima rejected amendments to the Law on the State Revenue Service in the first reading today, which stipulated merging the Revenue Service's Finance Police with Customs Police. Forty MPs from the Union of Greens and Farmers, National Alliance, and For Latvia From The Heart backed the bill. Voting against were 22 members of Unity and Latvian Association of Regions, and another 29 MPs from Harmony and Unity abstained. The Revenue Service's acting director general Dace Peleka maintained previously that the Revenue Service had completed most...
 
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