Customs officers seize undeclared money, gold items on Turkey border

Georgia’s Revenue Service on Tuesday said its professionals had prevented an attempt of smuggling of undeclared gold items and money over the Sarpi border crossing checkpoint with Turkey in the south-west of the country in two separate cases last week.

In the former case, a “large amount” of undeclared gold items - weighing in at 402,08 grams and worth ₾47,214 ($17,488) - was seized during physical and luggage searches of foreign citizens.

In the latter violation, customs officers prevented an attempted smuggling of undeclared gold items - weighing in at 328,46 grams - and also seized $40,000 in undeclared money from a foreign individual at the checkpoint.

The body added the cases had been handed over to the Investigation Service of the Ministry of Finance.