National Customs Agency

The customs officers at Malko Tarnovo BCP found contraband 1305 grams of silver and 45 grams of gold jewelry during an inspection of a car entering the country. The undeclared precious metal items were hidden in various places in the vehicle and in personal luggage, including medicine packages.
The car with Romanian registration arrived at Malko Tarnovo BCP on 02.11.2024, en route from Turkey to Romania via Bulgaria. The car was driven by a Romanian citizen with the initials E.D. In the customs control area, she announced that she was not carrying anything to declare. During the customs inspection, the inspectors found a total of 12 packages wrapped in dark tape and paper in different places in the interior of the car and in luggage bags. Some of them were placed in packages of medicines in personal luggage, as well as in a tool bag in the trunk of the car.
7 of the packages were found to contain white metal jewelery and the other 5 were found to contain yellow metal jewellery. According to the expertise carried out by an expert, 1305 grams of the jewelry are made of silver, and 45 grams are gold jewelry with a total value of over BGN 15 000. The undeclared silver and gold articles are detained. The Romanian citizen was charged with an administrative violation.
Almost 18 kg of contraband silver and gold jewelry have been detained since the beginning of the year by the customs officials of Malko Tarnovo BCP. Undeclared precious metal items were most often hidden among personal belongings in the luggage of travelers entering the country from Turkey. Violators are both foreign and Bulgarian citizens.