Inspectors of the Ghuwaifat border customs center foiled an attempt to smuggle more than 13 million Saudi riyals, which an African man tried to bring into the country through the land port.
An official source at the General Administration of Abu Dhabi Customs stated that the port employees were able, during the regular inspection of one of the vehicles coming to the country through the Al Ghuwaifat port, to seize sums of money about which the driver of the vehicle (39 years old) and another person of the same nationality who was with him did not provide any information, according to the statement. According to the country’s cash disclosure law, they were hidden in the recesses of the tailgate and back seats of the car.
The Director General of the General Administration of Abu Dhabi Customs, Saeed Ahmed Al Muhairi, said that the primary goal behind implementing the system of disclosing cash amounts in possession of travelers is to strengthen the statistical database in the country, and to encourage and support the economy by providing the appropriate environment to attract foreign investments to the country, in order to achieve… Sustainable and desired development.
It should be noted that the Central Bank decided to raise the minimum system for disclosing amounts and monetary instruments (checks and bearer securities convertible into cash) for travelers arriving and departing to and from the country, to 100 thousand dirhams, or its equivalent in other cash currencies, which is It has been in effect since September 2011
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