Employees of the Tashkent regional SSS Department, together with the regional Customs Department and border troops, detained two people who were trying to smuggle a large amount of foreign currency through the “Kazarma” simplified checkpoint in Bekabad.

During a personal search, a 42-year-old resident of Bekabad was found to have $166,000, and her 28-year-old partner – $190 thousand. A total of $356,000 were seized in a procedural manner.

It turned out that at the request of a citizen of Tajikistan so-called Makhmud, they took foreign currency from unknown people in the city of Bekabad, hid it in their clothes and tried to take it to Tajikistan for a fee.

Currently, a criminal case has been opened on this fact. Measures are being taken to identify the real owners of foreign currency.