Weekly Update of Border Control Results

• On December 14, 2020, a citizen of the Republic of Kazakhstan was detained at the Aktau aviation checkpoint (Mangystau region) during the registration of international flight No. 812 between Istanbul and Aktau.

 

• The reason for the detention was jewelry found during a personal search (on the body) for a total of about 7 million tenge.

 

• As a result of preliminary surveys, it became known that these products were purchased in the city of Istanbul of the Turkish Republic with the aim of selling them in the city of Aktau. The detained citizen explained the concealment of goods by an attempt to evade payment of customs duties.

 

• Procedural actions are carried out under article 551 of the Administrative Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan "Non-declaration or inaccurate customs declaration of goods, cash, monetary instruments, inaccurate statement of information in customs documents."

 

• On December 17, 2020, an attempt to smuggle tobacco products across the Kazakh-Russian border for a total amount of 2,260,000 tenge was suppressed at the “Syrym” automobile checkpoint (West Kazakhstan region).

 

• On December 18, 2020, at the “Zhaisan” automobile checkpoint (Aktobe region), while inspecting a Mercedes-Benz car following the Bishkek - St. Petersburg route under the control of a citizen of Kyrgyzstan, was found a large batch of mobile phones for a total of 32 720,000 tenge (409 units).

 

• The smuggled cargo was hidden in boxes of fermented milk products under consumer goods.

 

• The materials were handed over to the employees of the Department of Economic Investigations in the Aktobe region for further procedural actions.

 

Press Service

of the National Security Committee

of the Republic of Kazakhstan