Mineralovodsk customs: more than 24,000 people crossed the border over the New Year vacations

In the period from December 30, 2023 to January 9, 2024 more than 24 thousand people crossed the border through air checkpoints in the region of Mineralovodsk customs, at the same time, but a year earlier – more than 18 thousand. The increase in passenger traffic is due to the closure in 2022 of international airports in southern Russia (Rostov-on-Don, Krasnodar, Simferopol, Voronezh, etc.). The Mineralnye Vody air checkpoint has become an alternative to closed airports

The top five most popular countries for foreign travel during the New Year holidays among Russian tourists are Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan and Egypt. The most popular destination was Turkey: passenger traffic in  this direction amounted to more than 10 thousand people.

Turkey was the most popular destination

“Over 10 days, international air passengers violated the rules of moving goods across the customs border 5 times. The violations are related to the non-declaration by individuals of goods and cash, exceeding the equivalent of $10,000, when moving them across the customs border. ““, Sergey Yeliseyev, the first deputy head of the Customs Service, said

Five cases on administrative offenses under articles  16.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation (non-declaration of goods) and 16.4 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation (non-declaration of cash) have been initiated.

An administrative offense has been initiated

BACKGROUND:

There are 4 airports (in Mineralnye Vody, Grozny, Stavropol and Nalchik) in the region of customs activity, open for international traffic, providing communication with the countries of near and far abroad. Mineralnye Vody Airport accounted for the bulk of air transportation