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Title: Germans smuggle cash out of Switzerland
Source: The Local (Switzerland)
URL Source: http://www.thelocal.ch/20140417/ger ... smuggled-cash-into-switzerland
Published: Apr 17, 2014
Author: The Local
Post Date: 2014-04-20 12:14:37 by X-15
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Views: 31
Comments: 1

The number of Germans smuggling money out of Switzerland rose dramatically last year. Customs officers on the German-Swiss border said on Thursday they made a find in almost every third car they checked.

The limit for bringing undeclared cash across an EU border is €10,000 (12,200 francs), but customs officers told German financial magazine Wirtschaftswoche that drivers regularly broke this limit in 2013.

They found €573 million in illegal money, while in 2012 they found just €9.3 million.

But smugglers were also finding more cunning ways to avoid being caught. “More often we are finding cars with four or five people inside and each has around €9,800 or €9,900 in cash on them,” Hagen Kohlmann from the Ulm customs authority told the magazine.

When this happens, it is hard to prove who the money belongs to – so no one can be punished.

Other items turning up more often included keys to bank vaults, a sign, Kohlmann said, that people were going over the border to empty their accounts following last year's crackdown on overseas tax evasion.

Luck also seems to be running out for those who try to dodge the notoriously tough officers along the German-Swiss border by going through Austria.

Austrian border control found more than a million in smuggled money in 2013 – more than twice the amount from the year before.

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#1. To: X-15 (#0)

One solution would be to make repeated trips, twice a day, for a week or more.

Another solution would be inexpensive radio controlled model airplanes with a flying range of a couple of miles with a person with a radio control on both sides of the border.

DWornock  posted on  2014-04-21   0:15:57 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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