“I have nothing to declare”, said the traveller, but Customs finds over 30,000 euros in his car

As part of regular checks and inter-institutional cooperation to prevent and fight unlawful activities, officers of Kosovo Customs, in cooperation with the Kosovo Police, have prevented an attempt to bring undeclared monetary funds into the territory of the Republic of Kosovo.

The Customs announcement says that during a check at the Bërnjak border point, customs officers selected for inspection a vehicle with foreign plates, which was entering the territory of the Republic of Kosovo.

“During the interview, the traveller was asked whether he had goods or monetary funds to declare. He answered that he had nothing to declare.

Based on the suspicions created during the check, customs officers carried out an inspection of the vehicle and a personal check of the traveller. During the inspection of the vehicle, hidden in a concealed space in its floor were found 30,550 euros in cash, which had not been declared”, the announcement says.

Customs recalls, as Telegrafi reports, that under Article 33 of Law No. 05/L-096 on the Prevention of Money Laundering and Combating the Financing of Terrorism, every person who enters or leaves the Republic of Kosovo and carries monetary funds worth 10,000 euros or more is obliged to declare in writing the amount of the funds and their verifiable source to the customs officer.