An attempt to smuggle gold cups was foiled at the Tashkent airport

Another illegal customs operation was stopped at Tashkent International Airport. According to the news service "Tashkent-AERO", during the inspection of the luggage of an Uzbek citizen who was about to fly to Munich, border customs officers at the Islam Karimov Airport discovered a valuable item.

It turned out that the passenger tried to smuggle a cup made of 750-grade yellow gold with a total weight of 104 grams among his luggage. It is said that its market value is 135 million 200 thousand soums.

Thanks to the close supervision of customs officers, this item was detected and the citizen was stopped. An investigation is currently underway into this case.

Such cases have been observed before
Cases of attempts to illegally smuggle goods across the customs border are regularly detected in the country. For example:

• On January 31, an attempt to smuggle jewelry worth 483 million soums was stopped in the Fergana region;
  
• On February 10, an attempt to illegally import diesel fuel worth 1.3 billion soums from Turkmenistan into Uzbekistan was thwarted;
  
• On March 12, an attempt to smuggle historical coins and badges to Russia was foiled in Bukhara;
  
• On March 14, an entire dump truck was discovered behind a cargo labeled as auto spare parts at the Sergeli customs post.
  

The Zamin.uz editorial team continues to cover issues of legality and security at customs borders. What is your attitude to such cases?

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