Traders under the guise of tourists tried to secretly smuggle money into the Chernivtsi region through the Porubne checkpoint.
Law enforcement officials intercepted the transnational channel of illegal importation of money into Ukraine, which was stolen in the temporarily occupied territory. This was reported by the SBU on Monday, March 13.
In total, five participants in the scheme were exposed, from which almost 37 million hryvnias were confiscated. They tried to secretly smuggle money into the Chernivtsi region through the Porubne checkpoint under the guise of tourists on a regular bus. Some of the money they hid in their suitcases, and some they tied to their bodies.
“According to preliminary information, this money was stolen in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine. Subsequently, the proceeds of crime were exported to one of the countries in the Middle East, and then through the countries European at the customs border of our state,” the report said.
Seized funds seized. At the same time, a version is being studied that the illegal import of money may have been intended to finance Russian agents in Ukraine.
“Also, in cooperation with the State Financial Monitoring Service, all the routes of the illegal channel and the people involved are monitored. Part of the funds that were seized in” transit “EU countries earlier have now been blocked. The issue of their recovery is resolved in favor of Ukraine,” added the SBU.
Earlier, in the Odessa region, border guards found a man who tied 2.2 million hryvnias to his body. He tried to get to Ukraine from Romania.
In the Vinnytsia region, border guards found $57,000 in a car cache
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Source: korrespondent
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