Italian Finance Police: 412 offences at Fiumicino Airport, €96.7 million in undeclared funds and €2.5 million seized
These are the operations carried out since the start of the year by the Guardia di Finanza and the Customs Agency at the airport
Over 130 million euros in foreign currency seized, more than 96.7 million euros moved in breach of currency regulations, 412 violations identified and over 2.5 million euros seized. These are the figures relating to the operations carried out by officers from the Rome Provincial Command of the Guardia di Finanza and by officials from the Customs and Monopolies Agency’s Lazio 2 Customs Office at Fiumicino Airport since the start of 2026.
The checks, carried out to assess compliance with reporting obligations and to identify currency movements that do not comply with the rules laid down by national and European legislation, covered passengers in transit and their hand luggage and hold luggage.
Currency worth over 131 million euros seized
Overall, the checks, as reported by the Guardia di Finanza, “have made it possible to intercept cash movements totalling 131,571,364.46 euros. Of this amount, €96,786,028.46 was found to have been transferred in breach of the reporting obligations laid down by the legislation on cross-border cash transfers’.
412 confirmed breaches
Following the identification of 412 breaches, an administrative seizure totalling 2,552,109.60 euros was ordered. “As for a further 14,289,807 euros, however,” the Gdf emphasises in a statement, “ passengers avoided having their funds frozen by regularising their position on the spot, paying the Treasury an immediate fine calculated on the amount exceeding the legal limit of 10,000 euros, at a rate ranging from 15 per cent to 30 per cent of the excess sum’.
