Crimean customs opened the first criminal case on the fact of smuggling
Simferopol, August 13 (Navigator, Evgeny Andreev) – Crimean customs opened the first criminal case about illegal smuggling of ruble cash on the Russian-Ukrainian border.
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It is reported by the press service of the Ministry.
According to her, on July 25, during customs control at the Dzhankoy customs post, the attention of the inspectors was attracted by a Toyota Camry car, which was heading out of Crimea. During the customs inspection, 5 million rubles were found inside the car in hard-to-reach places.
The owner of the car, a citizen of Ukraine, did not fill out the passenger customs declaration when passing through customs control. He did not report the presence of goods and funds subject to mandatory declaration.
According to the citizen’s explanations, the funds found in the car belonged to him and were moved by him personally across the customs border of the Customs Union.
Taking into account the presence of signs of a crime, the Crimean Customs opened a criminal case under paragraph “a” of Part 2 of Article 200.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“Smuggling of cash and (or) monetary instruments on an especially large scale”).
According to the Customs Code of the Customs Union, in case of a one-time export of cash and (or) traveler's checks for a total amount exceeding the equivalent of 10 thousand US dollars, the specified cash and (or) traveler's checks are subject to customs declaration in writing by submitting a passenger customs declaration for the entire amount of exported cash and (or) traveler's checks.
Crimean Customs has opened its first criminal case on the grounds of smuggling.