MOSCOW: Bulgarian customs have thwarted an attempt to smuggle dollar notes and some of them suspected to be fake.
Customs officers at the Danube Bridge border crossing between Bulgaria and Romania have found undeclared USD 6,500 stashed in a mini-bus travelling from Bulgaria to Ukraine with one passenger and the driver, the Customs Agency said in a press release.
Some of the dollar notes carried identical serial numbers which raised suspicions the money might be counterfeit.
A criminal investigation has been launched. The nationality and identity of the two men was not disclosed.
