Omsk customs identified more than 300 violations of the currency legislation

In 2019 the Omsk customs office revealed violations of currency legislation in the amount of more than 8 billion rubles. The result is 197 checks of observance by participants of foreign trade activities currency legislation was initiated 10 criminal cases and 300 cases of administrative offences.

During the inspection the customs officers found evidence of representation some traders to the authorized Bank is invalid (fake) foreign trade contracts, for which using forged documents money was transferred to the accounts of foreign companies.

According to the facts of the Omsk customs office brought 9 criminal cases under article 193.1 of the criminal code (illegal foreign exchange transactions). The size of the illegally transferred currency amounted to more than $ 7 billion.

Another criminal case initiated on the fact of evasion from execution of duties for the repatriation of funds in foreign currency or the currency of the Russian Federation (article 193 of the criminal code), the amount of outstanding currency amounted to more than 14 million rubles. In 2018 the criminal cases in this area have not been initiated.

The sum of imposed fines for initiated administrative cases involving violations of the currency legislation, has made more than 160 million rubles. At the same time, two thirds of the cases of administrative offences in 2019 were instituted under part 1 of article 15.25 of the administrative code (illegal currency operations) committed with the use of forged (invalid) documents submitted by participants of foreign trade in authorized banks for conducting illegal currency operations. Compared to the year 2018, the number of cases of administrative offences in this category has doubled

Elena Petrova,

the press Secretary of the Omsk customs