a respected german newspaper reported this week that the black sea port of a desert is a hub of corruption many of the containers customs declarations are falsified zippers become shoelaces because shoelaces pay only a fraction in customs tariffs the charges are laid bare in documents made available to german daily sued doctored sites on papers are routinely forged many people are involved freight companies customs officers police and even the intelligence service as fee you that even though the port was supposed to become a flagship anti corruption project after the my down revolution twenty six year old civil rights activist. played a key role in the protests in the capital clear afterward she was put in charge of customs in odessa and was supposed to drain the harbor of corruption she said customs officers to the u.s. for training and the e.u. supplied modern scanners that were able to identify what goods are in the containers as well as contraband none of it helped the scanners were vandalized.