Pulkovo customs: customs x-ray revealed a discrepancy stated in the Declaration data

Pulkovo customs: customs x-ray revealed a discrepancy stated in the Declaration data

A gift from a resident of St. Petersburg flew to America, as customs technician saw in him the Nonconformance description.

Officials of the Postal customs office carrying out customs operations with the postal upravleniyami, interested in the information stated by the citizen in the customs Declaration. In the column “number” the man put the unit, has estimated the package at $ 100, and “the category of mail” marked as a gift. During the inspection of parcels using x-ray, the customs officers had reason to believe that the information on the goods declared in the customs Declaration, differ from the actual goods transported. Suspicions were confirmed when it was revealed that “gift” turned out to be 59 jewelry made of silver, various forms of packages.

A citizen initiated case on administrative offense under part 1 of article 16.2 of the administrative offences code of the Russian Federation on the fact of not declaring goods in the prescribed form.

Olga Dyatko,
the press-Secretary of Pulkovo customs