In Germany, 60 customs investigators and several prosecutors search the premises of car dealers in Rhineland-Palatinate. The case is investigated in the importation of expensive cars from Germany to Russia in circumvention of sanctions and restrictions of the EU. Writes UNN with reference to Tagesschau.
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The offices of several German car dealers in Rhineland-Palatinate have been searched in connection with a case involving the smuggling of luxury cars to Russia. According to the investigation, the suspects misled the German authorities by reporting that the cars were being exported to Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Turkey. According to the customs investigation office in Essen, more than 60 customs investigators and several prosecutors seized extensive evidence at more than seven private and commercial premises of independent car dealers in Germersheim.
Customs investigators are accusing the dealers of violating the Foreign Trade and Commercial Payments Act (AWG). It is indicated that the car dealers were collecting millions for the vehicles.
The investigative authorities imposed a so-called seizure of assets worth 4.5 million dollars to prevent the defendants from disappearing the revealed income. They also seized several accounts belonging to the main suspect and imposed a compulsory lien on the suspects' real estate.
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