Vehicle seized at Siret Border Crossing Point for smuggling cigarettes

A joint team consisting of Border Police officers and Customs officers detected over 1.000 packages of cigarettes, Ukrainian made, hidden in the floor of a vehicle driven by a Romanian citizen. The Fiat Ulysse vehicle, valuing about 4.000 LEI, was seized. The cigarettes, valuing about 1.219 LEI, were sized by custom authorities and the person was imposed a fine of 6.000 LEI.

Statistics regarding Romanian Border Police activity in the last 24 hours

In the last 24 hours, in the competence areas - meaning border crossing points and "green border" - Border Police officers detected:

• 57 illegal deeds (18 crimes and 39 penalties) committed by Romanian and foreign citizens;
  
• the amount of penalties reaches approximately 16,200 lei;
  
• undeclared goods (which were to be smuggled into the country), which exceeded the customs’ legal provisions or were suspected as being counterfeit with a total value of 412,200 lei, were detected;
  
• the flow of passengers and means of transportation at the border crossing points was about 85,100 people, both at the entry and at the exit and over 25,300 means of transportation.
  8 foreign citizens were refused entry due to the fact that they did not meet the entry requirements and 26 Romanian citizens were not allowed to exit Romania out of various legal grounds.