Finance Ministry staff seizes 11 kg gold
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Investigators of the Ministry of Finance of Georgia have seized unregistered gold jewelry in especially large quantities at Georgian border checkpoints, on the border with Turkey.
The people, who have not been identified, have tried to smuggle in 11,2 kg gold from Turkey in Georgia via the Sarpi and Vale checkpoints.
The cost of the jewelry exceeds 670,000 GEL [274,000 USD].
The detainees face 5-7 years in prison for contraband.
Georgian customs officers have made a remarkable discovery of 18kg of undeclared gold bars, worth an estimated 1.32 million GEL.
Georgian law enforcers have confiscated gold worth of 181,870 GEL (63,000 USD), the Georgian Ministry of Finance has stated earlier today.
444.37 grams of undeclared gold items and coins, and 4.18 grams of undeclared silver items were seized at the Red Bridge customs, a crossing point between Georgia and Azerbaijan on the Tbilisi-Ganja road, and at Kutaisi International Airport, in Western Georgia, announces the Georgian Revenue Service.
Customs officers seized a total of 6,820 undeclared cigarettes at the Red Bridge (a crossing point between Georgia and Azerbaijan on the Tbilisi-Ganja road) and Sarpi (located in the south-west of Georgia on the border with Turkey) customs crossing points in Georgia.
480 grams of undeclared gold items were seized at Kutaisi International Airport, in Western Georgia, announces the Georgian Revenue Service.