Rostov customs officers have opened a criminal case for evading customs payments totaling more than 2 million rubles

In May 2023, a citizen of Abkhazia illegally transferred the car to another person, evading payment of customs duties in the amount of 2.17 million rubles.

In May 2023, a citizen of Abkhazia temporarily imported “NISSAN CIMA” through the customs post MAPP Adler Krasnodar customs as a vehicle for personal use with full conditional exemption from customs payments. After that, the man handed the car with all the documents for use to a Russian citizen and left for Abkhazia on the same day by public transportation

In accordance with current legislation, a temporarily imported vehicle for personal use can be transferred by a foreign citizen for temporary use to a natural person of a member state of the EAEU with the permission of the customs authority and on condition of ensuring the fulfillment of the obligation to pay customs duties and taxes. In other cases, such transfer can be made only after customs declaration of the car for free circulation

Deputy Head of Rostov Customs Anatoly Lopatin explained: “The owner of the NISSAN CIMA and a resident of the Rostov region conspired to evade customs payments. They organized the movement of the car across the customs border as a temporarily imported vehicle for personal use, misled the customs authority and took advantage of the privilege of paying customs duties

The Rostov Customs initiated criminal proceedings against the two citizens under paragraph “a” of part 2 of article 194 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation – evasion of customs payments on a large scale by a group of persons by prior conspiracy.

A criminal case was initiated against the two citizens under paragraph “a” of part 2 of article 194 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation – evasion of customs payments on a large scale by a group of persons by prior conspiracy