On the evening of May 31, border guards stopped a Hyundai car at the Shehyni checkpoint. A 39-year-old Ukrainian followed the car to the neighboring state. Based on the analysis and risk assessment, it was decided to conduct an additional inspection.
During which border guards together with customs officers, with the involvement of a service dog to search for weapons, found a hunting rifle and a pistol. During the further inspection, in the luggage compartment between the driver’s rear seat and the gas equipment, as well as under the car’s hull, the inspectors found: and saber, airborne clock and aviation variometer.
The review team also found 600 coins of various denominations, including Russian commemorative coins minted on the occasion of the annexation of Crimea with anti-Ukrainian propaganda, a collection of postage stamps numbering about 1,500 pieces, 150 banknotes, about 200 different badges, medals and distinctions. nine clocks, an ancient icon, invalid certificates and blank forms of certificates in the amount of 100 pieces, St. George’s ribbons and other symbols of the USSR.
Given the man’s nervous behavior and slurred speech, it was decided to involve a dog trained to search for drugs. As a result, a substance of gray-green color of plant origin, previously marijuana, was found in the design features of the car.
According to this fact, the border guards informed the competent law enforcement agencies and sent a report on the detection of signs of a crime under Art. 201 of the Criminal Code “Smuggling” and Art. 305 of the Criminal Code “Smuggling of narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances, their analogues or precursors or falsified drugs.”
The man never got to Poland, his border guards handed him over to the SBU. The “finds” were found and the car was confiscated.