Revenue Service seizes $95,000 in undeclared money at Tbilisi, Kazbegi airports
The Service said it had seized $45,000 and ₽3.5 million from citizens of Israel and Russia, with the total sum reaching ₾286,865 ($94,989/€89,928). Photo: Revenue Service
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Customs officers of the Georgian Revenue Service seized about $95,000 in undeclared money at airports in the capital of Tbilisi and the northern Kazbegi region, the state service announced on Friday.
The Service said it had seized $45,000 and ₽3.5 million from citizens of Israel and Russia, with the total sum reaching ₾286,865 ($94,989/€89,928).
The foreign citizens were fined ₾28,686 ($9,498/€8,993) as a penalty for the offence, the state body added.
Results achieved as part of a programme for information-sharing for organised crime prevention and identification of high-risk shipments were discussed in a meeting between officials of Georgia’s Revenue Service and the State Revenue Committee of Armenia, the Georgian agency said on Friday.
The Prosecutor’s Office of Georgia has launched criminal prosecution against three individuals for fraud and money laundering committed against British and French citizens, the state body announced on Thursday.
The Investigation Service of the Ministry of Finance of Georgia has arrested an Armenian citizen for importing large quantities of undeclared precious metal products across the customs border of Georgia, the state body said on Thursday.
The General Prosecutor's Office of Georgia has uncovered a transnational fraud scheme and launched criminal prosecution against two individuals.
A criminal proceeding has been launched against one individual for smuggling ₾26,644 ($8,808/€8,352) worth of medicines and two laptops across Georgia’s southern border, the Investigation Service of the Georgian Finance Ministry said on Wednesday.
Georgian authorities identified 393 cases of illegal storage and transportation of excise-free tobacco products in the country in June, the Revenue Service announced on Wednesday.
An Iranian citizen was arrested at the Tbilisi International Airport on Tuesday after a canine officer and a police dog of the Customs Department of the Georgian Revenue Service discovered 394,43 grams of marijuana while inspecting luggage at the customs checkpoint.
Customs officers of the Georgian Revenue Service seized about $18,060,000 in undeclared money at Batumi and Kutaisi airports in Georgia’s west and the northern Kazbegi Customs Checkpoint, the state service announced on Friday.
Georgian customs officers seized ₾33,628 ($12,526) worth of undeclared gold items on the Sarpi border crossing checkpoint with Turkey in the south-west of the country, the Revenue Service announced on Tuesday.