The border police in Vlora have finalized the coded operation "Excise" where they seized 218,885 euros undeclared at the border and a quantity of contraband wine. The citizen Alfred Bazini has fallen into the handcuffs.
"The services of PKK Port Vlorë, in cooperation with the specialists of the Economic and Financial Crime Investigation Section of DVP Vlorë, following the checks to combat illegality, based on the risk analysis and selection checks, at the entrance of the RSH , have passed to the second line, for a more detailed control, a "DAF" type truck, driven by an AB citizen
During the control exercised in the vehicle that this citizen was driving, the Police services found and seized 218,885 euros undeclared according to the legal provisions in force and a box of wine bottles, without a purchase receipt.

At the end of the actions within the "Excise" operation, the specialists of the Section for the Investigation of Economic and Financial Crimes of the DVP Vlora arrested in the act the citizen AB, 50 years old, resident in Vlora, for the criminal offenses "Non-declaration of money and items with value at the border", "Cleaning of the proceeds of the criminal offense" and "Smuggling of goods for which excise duty is paid".
In cooperation with the Prosecutor's Office of the Judicial District of Vlorë, work continues on the clarification and full legal documentation of this case.
The materials were passed to the Prosecutor's Office for further action," the police stated.