Podcast in English
Text size
Bulgarian National Radio © 2023 All Rights Reserved

Two detained in attempt to smuggle 12 kg of gold from Turkey to Ukraine 

The women hid the jewellery under their clothes 

Photo: BGNES

The Yambol District Prosecutor's Office detained two Ukrainian women for up to 72 hours with 12 kg of smuggled gold items. The perpetrators were travelling in a van from Turkey to Ukraine via Bulgaria when they were intercepted at Lesovo BCP.

At the border, they stated that they had nothing to declare. During the subsequent check and personal examination, the customs officers found a total of 30 packages of jewellery wrapped with tape under the clothes of the two women. The value of the jewellery was €544 653.

Listen to the daily news from Bulgaria presented in "Bulgaria Today" podcast, available in Spotify.

More from category

Open Doors Day at Rozhen astronomical observatory

The Rozhen National Astronomical Observatory at the Institute of Astronomy of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences has announced today, June 4, an Open Doors Day. According to tradition, it will be organized on the Christian feast of Pentecost, from 10..

published on 6/4/23 6:30 AM

Hail and thunderstorms on cloudy and rainy Sunday

Clouds will be significant overnight and there will be brief showers of rain with thunder in many places, mainly in western Bulgaria . Sunday will still be cloudy with cumulus clouds. In the west, there will be intense short-term showers which may be..

published on 6/3/23 7:05 PM
Rumen Radev

Rumen Radev expects intensification of cooperation with Turkey

The cooperation between Bulgaria and Turkey in the field of energy and the common transport projects of the two countries provides new opportunities for the development of the whole region . This is what President Rumen Radev said in Ankara where he..

published on 6/3/23 5:51 PM