After a holiday in Turkey, a couple from Romania had an unpleasant experience with customs in Bulgaria while returning home.
The border between Bulgaria and Turkey Photia: Archive
On the Facebook group “Forum Turkey”, a Romanian accuses the Bulgarian customs of abuse and is looking for a lawyer to do justice. As he returned from a holiday over a week. Along with his wife, the customs officers in Bulgaria left him without several grams of gold.
“Hello, I’m looking for a lawyer to help me with the next situation … yesterday (June 14) Upon return from Turkey (vacation 8 days, I did not go for the bargain) to the Bulgarian customs … We were stopped for normal control, searched throughout the car, saw that they found nothing illegal, started looking in wallets. In the wife of his wife they found a sachet with 40 grams of gold, 15 were her home (I showed her old pictures), and 25 grams were new, which had taken for the wedding, necklace, earrings, bracelet“, He said, without revealing his identity, in a post made on the Facebook group” Forum Turkey “.
The Romanian claims that he was informed on customs that in the envelope he found is both old gold, with which his wife had left Romania in Turkey, as well as new gold, bought from Turkey for a special occasion. The border guards, however, invoked a new law that would prohibit the transit with more than five grams of gold/person.
“I explained to him that it is also old gold and new gold in that envelope, he said it could not, he violates the law and will be confiscated, they told me that it is a new law, for several days, in which you say that you are allowed with maximum 5 grams of gold / person. I asked him to show me the law, he said he had not reached them yet, I searched the net, and the law on 2025 clearly wrote that it is 37gr per person. He said that that law does not apply because there is another new one unpublished on the Internet, I said “If it is written nowhere, where to know? He said it is not his job“He wrote on Facebook.
The Romanian says he called the Romanian Embassy in the Republic of Bulgaria, but that no one could help him.
“I called the Romanian Embassy in Bulgaria, said they know nothing and that every customs applies the law as they know. Finally, after 7 hours of expected, we took the new gold + the one we had in pictures, of the wife, total 40gr + fine. It does not seem normal to me to be made such an abuse, it is not written anywhere that you are allowed with 5 gr, everywhere on the Internet write 37! And to them on a poster At the entrance to Bulgaria He even writes 50, I showed him and said he was old. I want to make an appeal or something to recover my goods, it is an abuse and a beating on their part! Please help me“He concluded.
“I’ll go to the white canvas”
The post has collected over 150 comments. There were people who recommended several lawyers, but there were others who laughed at his situation. “You forgot to walk in your back pocket !!! You know, in life you still have to give not only to take“, Commented a person.
“S.Butter quarreled with why I didn’t bother them, why didn’t I let my head down. If you are going to be their slaves, bead and success. I am not going to let my head down on my justice, I will pay as much as needed to solve this problem, even if I spend a lawyer 1,000-2,000 euros, I will go to the white canvas. On my justice, on the law written on white, to let my head down ?? To be their fool ?? You, the Romanians, have learned with the bribe, and they are abusing to the maximum”, The injured person also commented.
