Undeclared money was found at the Balandino airport (Chelyabinsk) when checking the hand luggage of one of the passengers of the flight to Dushanbe.
The man tried to take out more than 600,000 rubles to Tajikistan, which is more than $10,000, reports Vecherniy Chelyabinsk, citing the press secretary of the Chelyabinsk customs, Alexander Zemskov.
" This is not the first case of non-declaration of funds in our practice, - Andrey Visimskikh, head of the customs post at Balandino Airport, clarified. - Since the beginning of 2022, inspectors have identified four more such facts. Money has been seized. According to these facts, cases of administrative offenses were opened".
Since March 2, the export of foreign currency in the equivalent of over $10,000 has also been banned in Russia.
Source: Asia-Plus