Individuals attempt to smuggle $356,000 in cash out of Uzbekistan (video)

Employees of the Tashkent regional SSS Department, together with the regional Customs Department and border troops, detained two people who were trying to smuggle a large amount of foreign currency through the “Kazarma” simplified checkpoint in Bekabad.

During a personal search, a 42-year-old resident of Bekabad was found to have $166,000, and her 28-year-old partner – $190 thousand. A total of $356,000 were seized in a procedural manner.

It turned out that at the request of a citizen of Tajikistan so-called Makhmud, they took foreign currency from unknown people in the city of Bekabad, hid it in their clothes and tried to take it to Tajikistan for a fee.

Currently, a criminal case has been opened on this fact. Measures are being taken to identify the real owners of foreign currency.