Two citizens of Ukraine who tried to smuggle more than 440,000 euros ($480,000 USD) into Moldova in April 2023 were sentenced to nine years in prison, NewsMaker reported. The two Ukrainians were detained on April 13 when arriving in Cimișlia. Moldovan law enforcement officers found more than 440,000 euros ($480,000 USD) in their car, which […]
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyi on Dec 28 signed a new law which would provide criminal liability for cross-border smuggling. According to the website of the Verkhovna Rada, the signed law concerns the criminalization of smuggling of goods and excise goods and false declaration of goods. Read also: Over 60 smuggling networks dismantled by Ukraine’s […]
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has signed bill No. 5420, approved by the Ukrainian Parliament, which criminalises smuggling, into law on 28 December. Source: the information on the bill card on the Verkhovna Rada (Ukraine’s Parliament) website Details: As Yaroslav Zhelezniak, First Deputy Chairman of the parliamentary Tax Committee, said, the bill took into account the amendments that […]
Ukraine’s SBU security service has eliminated more than 60 groups involved in drug smuggling to the European Union since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion, the agency reported on Dec. 28. Almost UAH 2 billion ($52.5 million) in narcotics have been seized from drug traffickers, the SBU said. Many special operations were also conducted against […]
Federal prison sentences were handed down to three women for their roles in a human smuggling operation, which resulted in the deaths of two migrants in the West Texas desert, court records show. Guadalupe Quezada, 35; Veronica Quezada, 39; and Elizabeth Miranda Lozano, 39, were sentenced in December to prison after each woman pleaded guilty […]