The Federal Customs Service has set a record for the number of detected cases of illegal transportation of cash

10:48; 18 August 2025 year

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In the first half of 2025, the Federal Customs Service identified 6314 cases of illegal transportation of cash by citizens. This is reported by the publication «Izvestia»lt;/a>. This is the maximum for the entire time of statistics.

In comparison with the same period last year, the number of detected cases increased by 15.8% (5,449 such cases were recorded last year). Most of them accounted for the illegal movement of dollars and euros.

Over the past period, the FCS has initiated 6,277 cases of administrative offenses and 37 criminal ones. The majority of violations occurred in the export of currency from the Russian Federation (5,125 facts, +13% year-on-year). The rest is the import of cash into the Russian Federation (1189 cases, +31%).

The total amount of illegally transported money in administrative and criminal cases amounted to 1.2 billion rubles, which is 30% higher than a year earlier. Of these, the amount of exported currency amounted to 784.1 million rubles.

Most often, people tried to export cash from Russia to Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, Azerbaijan, China and Uzbekistan. Illegal cash imports are also most often carried out from these same countries and Serbia.

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