Bulgarian Customs Thwart Attempt to Smuggle EUR 370,000 through Kalotina Border Crossing

Crime | May 11, 2016, Wednesday // 21:03
Bulgaria: Bulgarian Customs Thwart Attempt to Smuggle EUR 370,000 through Kalotina Border Crossing Photo credit: customs.bg

Bulgarian customs officers have confiscated EUR 370,000 hidden in a passenger car travelling from Germany to Turkey.

The car, Audi A6, was stopped for inspection at Kalotina crossing, on the border with Serbia, although the two men in the vehicle, a Turkish citizen and a German one, said they had nothing to declare.

A search of the car found EUR 370,000 stashed in cavities of the body of the car, the Bulgarian Customs Agency said in a statement on Wednesday.

The Customs Agency did not say in which country the car had been registered.

 

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