Samara customs officers uncovered a multi-million dollar non-payment of customs duties when importing a car from Abkhazia

Orenburg region officers of the Samara Customs Service in cooperation with traffic police officers revealed a TOYOTA CROWN MAJESTA passenger car illegally imported into Russia and driven by a resident of Orenburg.

The officers of the Orenburg region service of the Samara Customs Service in cooperation with traffic police officers revealed a TOYOTA CROWN MAJESTA passenger car driven by an Orenburg resident illegally imported into Russia

In the course of operative-search measures it was established that the man had purchased the car in Abkhazia and for a monetary reward asked a resident of the republic to deliver it to Russia, having registered it as a temporarily imported vehicle for personal use

In this way, by providing the customs authority with false information about the purpose of importing a passenger car, the citizen evaded customs payments in the amount of more than 2.6 million rubles, which is a large amount

The Samara Customs initiated a criminal case on the grounds of a crime under Part 1 Article 194 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (evasion of customs payments levied on an individual, committed on a large scale). Verification measures are also being carried out with regard to the persons involved. the car was seized