There is nothing that is not smuggled. Customs officials at the airport stopped importing 4,000 illegal “luggage” items by 2022.
Dobby” works at the airport in Schwechat (Lower Austria). The German Shorthaired Pointer is relaxed and takes a picture on baggage carousel number 6 in the arrivals hall. Until a suspicious suitcase is placed in front of the four-legged customs officer. Suddenly “Dobby freezes” , he freezes, as the customs officers say.
There’s illegal snakeskin in the trunk. Just one demonstration, but “Dobby” and his colleagues will have more than 4,000 entries in 45,000 checks by 2022, as Finance Minister Magnus Brunner (ÖVP) presented. The highlights: 1.5 kilograms of gold jewelry in his underpants, two kilograms of cocaine in the bars of a suitcase or 345 kilograms of Kath leaves declared as matcha tea. 2.9 tons of sexual enhancers were secured, as well as snake wine or the horns of giant wild sheep.
There is a drop in cigarettes as Ukraine and Belarus are no longer used as air smuggling routes. Brunner was very satisfied with the work of “his” customs officials.
Source: Krone
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