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Under the direction of the District Attorney’s Office – Vidin, actions are being carried out to investigate the pre-trial processes for a crime classified in art. 253, paragraph 1 of the Penal Code: concealment of the origin of the goods acquired through a crime or other socially dangerous act.
On 11.11.2020, at the Danube Bridge 2 Vidin – Calafat border checkpoint, customs officers stopped to inspect a truck arriving from Romania, a tractor with a semi-trailer, with a Hungarian traffic registration number. The vehicle was moving from Germany to Turkey. The truck was driven by the Turkish citizen MD Two of his compatriots rode in it: IA and OK, who said they were hitchhiking. They denied having prohibited goods, currency and valuables above the permitted limits.
Customs received information that the people in the truck are involved in an ongoing money laundering investigation in Germany. During a thorough inspection of the car, personal belongings and a large sum of money were found in its cargo space. A backpack and a plastic bag with euro banknotes of different denominations were found in the cabin. For them, the passenger of the IA truck explained that they were his. The police officers working on the case have established the exact amount of money: 450,020 euros. She was seized, as well as the vehicle, which it is material evidence in the process prior to the trial initiated.
The three foreigners were brought in as defendants for the criminal act committed by them: concealing the origin, location and movement of the amount of money acquired through a crime. Currently, by order of the supervising prosecutor, they have been detained for up to 72 hours.
The court will rule on the request made by the Vidin District Prosecutor’s Office to determine the “detention in custody” restraining measures against the accused. There is a reasonable suspicion that they have committed the crime for which they have been prosecuted. The defendants do not have an address in the country, there is evidence of complicity in drug trafficking and money. In addition, they tried to leave the border control post on foot to thwart the inspection, according to the press center of the Appeal Prosecutor’s Office – Sofia.
At the request of the Vidin District Prosecutor’s Office, the court imposed preventive detention against the three Turkish citizens prosecuted for money laundering, a crime according to art. 253, para. 1 of the Penal Code. During the investigation of the case, evidence was obtained that the accused concealed the origin, location and movement of the amount of money acquired through a crime. The investigation continues, the press center of the Appellate Prosecutor’s Office – announced Sofia a little later.
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