site.btaUndeclared Cash Worth BGN 951,137 Seized at Kapitan Andreevo Border Checkpoint

Bulgarian customs officers seized the equivalent of BGN 951,137 in undeclared cash upon inspecting a bus leaving the country, the Customs Agency said on Wednesday.  

A bus with Turkish plates traveling from Romania to Turkey through Bulgaria, with a Turkish driver and 13 passengers, was selected for a detailed inspection at Kapitan Andreevo border checkpoint on the Bulgarian-Turkish border. Two bags in the luggage compartment belonging to one of the passengers, a Romanian national, were found to contain nine packs of cash. The packs contained British, Scottish and Irish pounds in different denominations. The total amount of undeclared cash was GBP 382,880, 23,580 Scottish pounds and IEP 3,100 to the total worth of BGN 951,137.

Pre-trial proceedings on the case are under way. The Romanian national has been detained for 72 hours.

Since the beginning of the year, customs officers at Kapitan Andreevo have found over BGN 15,600,000 worth in undeclared cash.