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Home | World News | Croatia customs fine HFC smuggler €13,200

Croatia customs fine HFC smuggler €13,200

9th March 2023

CROATIA:  A Croatian citizen has been €13,200 for an attempt to smuggle 50 cylinders of HFC refrigerant across the border from Bosnia-Herzegovina. 

Local reports say police and customs officials stopped the truck at the border point in Stara Gradiška in the Brod-Posavina County of Croatia. 

The truck, with Bosnian-Herzegovinian registration, was driven by a Croatian citizen. Forty-five cylinders of R134a and five cylinders of R32 were found, weighing 657kg. 

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