In October 2013, in Henri Coanda International Airport, the Directorate for Surveillance and Border Crossing Control within GIBP, as National Contact Point of AIRPOL - organized and coordinated the cross-border action Goodeye II, in cooperation with the General Directorate of Customs - Otopeni Customs Office, respectively the General Inspectorate of Romanian Police - Directorate of Transportation Police, having as main purpose the prevention and countering of illegal trafficking of goods.
While the activity was carried out, based on risk analyses
developed together with the Customs employees within Otopeni
Customs Office, passengers were selected for carrying out thorough
checks on the transported baggage; respectively thorough checks
were carried out on packages sent through courier companies.
So, within this operation, on 01.10.2013, at Henri Coanda Border Police Point, the border policemen and the customs employees detected 39.760 Karelia Lights cigarettes in the hand luggage of a female Romanian citizen, aged 21, who was travelling from Amsterdam. Â The cigarettes were detained by the Customs employee and they drew up criminal file for committing complicity in smuggling.
Also, on 24.10.2013, checks were carried out on the hand luggage of the passengers from certain flights to London, and, as a result of the checks, 32.800 Marlboro Lights and Viceroy cigarettes were detected, which had Ukrainian stamp and followed to be removed illegally from the country.
On 28.10.2013, the border policemen within Henri Coanda Airport Border Crossing Point carried out an action in cooperation with Otopeni Customs Office and Air Transportation Police Office, and they detected three Romanian citizens abiding on the radius of Dolj county, aged between 20 and 25, who tried to introduce illegally in the country an amount of cigarettes.
They arrived from Athens and after they recovered their hand luggage, they were monitored up to the parking lot of the airport where they were stopped and identified. As a result of the check of the hand luggage, the policemen detected  56.800 RGD cigarettes which were unstamped and originating from China.
The Border Police and Air Transportation Police drew up criminal files to the persons involved for committing holding outside the tax warehouse or marketing on the Romanian territory of excisable goods subject to marking, without being marked or marked inappropriate, or with fake markings, above the limit of 10.000 cigarettes and smuggling.
The total amount of the confiscated cigarettes is approximately 84.000 lei.
Also, within this operation, at the Cargo Compartment of Henri Coanda Airport, the border policemen and the customs employees carried out thorough checks on certain packages sent through courier companies.
Thus, there were discovered different devices and plastic playing cards packages, objects that are suspect regarding the purpose for which they were designed; they can be used in order to counterfeit the results of gambling, so they were confiscated in order to continue the investigations and to take the legal measures.
The addresser of one of the packages is investigated for using or holding in order to use in a gambling room a device which could change the chance elements and the selection methods through which the results of the games, the amount or the payment frequency in a gambling are modified (Article 25, letter c of GEO 77 / 2009) and fraud (Article 215 Criminal Code).
This operation was developed under the coordination of AIRPOL Permanent Office - Brussels, at the level of airports of the member states and had as main objective the development of thorough checks on passengers, in order to prevent and counter illegal trafficking of goods.
Background information
AIRPOL is a permanent and multidisciplinary cooperation network of police, private security services, border police and other relevant law enforcement authorities, services, border guards and other relevant law enforcement services which are active in and aroundwhich are active inside an around airports, having the mission to substantially contribute for the enhancement of security in the airports of the EU member states and Schengen associated countries, for countering criminal activities inside and around airports and for other aspects connected to the civil security aviation.