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More than a quarter million dollars in socks: Odesa customs officers uncovered a courier at the border with Turkey
More than 270 thousand US dollars were attempted to be illegally taken out of Ukraine through the Orlivka checkpoint in the Odesa region. The money was carefully hidden in structural cavities of a minibus and wrapped in ordinary socks.
According to Odesa Customs, a Mercedes minibus driven by a Ukrainian citizen was headed to Turkey. During scanning of the vehicle, inspectors detected anomalies in the body cavities.
A subsequent in-depth inspection, conducted jointly with officers of the Security Service of Ukraine in the Odesa region, confirmed the presence of hideouts. Bundles of cash were concealed in the door sills under the front doors, in hard-to-reach niches under the hood (including near the cabin filter), and inside headlight housings. To reach the caches, it was necessary to remove certain vehicle components.
The banknotes themselves were wrapped in black socks, packed in polyethylene, and tightly wrapped with adhesive tape. In total, in this way the offender tried to export from the country without declaring 270 400 US dollars and 500 euros.
A protocol on violation of customs rules was drawn up on the fact of moving currency values concealed from customs control. The foreign currency in the amount of over 12 million hryvnias, together with the vehicle, has been temporarily seized.
A notice of unlawful activity, containing signs of an offense under Articles 201-3 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine, has been sent to law enforcement agencies.
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