Krasnodar customs stopped illegal export of currency

A total of 17,000 US dollars was seized from a passenger flying to Georgia at Sochi airport.

While carrying out customs control of luggage and hand luggage of individuals, officers of the customs post of Sochi Airport of Krasnodar Customs stopped a passenger departing from Russia on a flight “Sochi-Tbilisi”. The man was traveling through the “green” corridor of international sector “C” of the airport, he did not submit a passenger customs declaration to the customs authority. During the oral interview, he said that he was carrying cash

“During the inspection of the citizen’s personal belongings in his bag, foreign cash currency in the amount of 27 thousand dollars was revealed. The head of the customs post of Sochi Airport Ivan Leoshko explained

The cash currency, which did not exceed the established norm allowed for export (10 thousand U.S. dollars), was returned to the passenger. The rest of the cash – 17 thousand dollars. A case on administrative offense was initiated under article 16.4 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of Russia “Non-declaration or inaccurate declaration by individuals of cash and (or) monetary instruments”

Since the beginning of 2023, Sochi Airport customs post of Krasnodar customs on the facts of illegal movement of cash across the customs border of the EAEU initiated 41 cases of administrative offenses, 1 criminal case, seized more than 5 million rubles. Most often tried to illegally export currency (dollars, euros, rubles) to such countries as Turkey, Israel, Georgia