A fine of up to 30 million rubles for smuggling currency

A large fine, imprisonment up to 2 years and confiscation of 3.8 million rubles threatens the citizen of the Russian Federation for smuggling cash. At the end of last year, koltsovsky customs officers in the green channel stopped flying to Baku passenger. In the purse he was carrying 3.8 million roubles, but the customs Declaration is not filled. As it turned out during the investigation, the defendant in a criminal case often flew international flights and on mandatory Declaration of currency knew.

“Such crimes in the passenger customs post of rare – 1-2 times per year. The export of currency is permissive: the air traveller is enough to declare foreign currency in full, while customs duties and charges”, – said the head of the customs office Airport Koltsovo (passenger), Dmitry Shishkin.

After completion of all procedural actions in the criminal case referred to the court. It should be noted that only over the past two years for similar crimes Koltsovsky customs imeni V. A. Sorokin transferred to the state Treasury 18.1 million rubles.

Department of public relations UTU