Customs officers seize $12,000 in undeclared gold items on Turkey border
The items - weighing in at 376 grams - were seized during personal searches of two Georgian citizens, who have been identified only through their initials. Photo via Revenue Service's Facebook page
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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.
The items - weighing in at 376 grams - were seized during personal searches of two Georgian citizens, who have been identified only through their initials.
One of the offenders was fined ₾5,244 ($1,953), while evidence on the other has been forwarded to the Investigative Service of the Ministry of Finance for further response, the body added.
A $7,740 worth of undeclared gold items have been seized at the Sadakhlo checkpoint, a crossing point between Georgia and Armenia, the Revenue Service of the Ministry of Finance of Georgia said on Monday.
Georgia's Revenue Service on Friday "categorically and with full responsibility" declared the media report on Wednesday that cited the Czech Ambassador as saying Czech-made products had been exported from Georgia to Russia in a circumvention of international sanctions as "false information".
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Georgian customs officers seized ₾76,430 ($28,901) in undeclared gold items on the Sarpi border crossing with Turkey in Georgia’s south-west, the Revenue Service announced on Tuesday.
Customs officers at the Kazbegi checkpoint on the country’s northern border with Russia returned potato and sawn lumber batches to exporting countries after the products failed sanitary and phytosanitary inspection, the Revenue Service said on Tuesday.
Georgian customs officers have seized ₾41,540 ($16,007) in undeclared silver items on the Sarpi border crossing with Turkey in the country’s south-west, the Revenue Service said on Wednesday.
The Revenue Service of the Georgian Finance Ministry on Friday said its customs officers had identified attempted smuggling of gold items by a group of Georgian and foreign nationals.
Georgian customs officers seized ₾14,429 ($5,374) in undeclared gold and silver items on the Sarpi border crossing with Turkey in Georgia’s south-west and the Sadakhlo Border Crossing Point on the country's southern border with Armenia.
Georgian customs officers seized ₾42,098 ($15,858) in undeclared gold on the Sadakhlo Border Crossing Point on the country's southern border with Armenia, the Revenue Service announced on Monday.