29,523 textile products and 432 pairs of shoes, with trademark signs, were detained by customs officers at the Kapitan Andreevo Customs Point. The goods were seized due to suspicions of violation of intellectual property rights. They were discovered during separate inspections of two trucks entering the country from Turkey.
In one of the cases, on March 27, 2026, around midnight, a tractor with a semi-trailer with Turkish registration arrived at the point. The driver - a Turkish citizen, presented regular documents for the transported goods - textile products from Turkey via Bulgaria to Lithuania. The truck was selected for a thorough customs inspection, during which 17,669 blouses, trousers, T-shirts, jackets, underwear were found among the declared items, all with the markings of world-famous brands.
A few hours later, during an inspection of another truck with a foreign registration, 11,854 items of clothing and 432 pairs of shoes bearing the logos of famous brands were found. The truck was transporting groupage goods from Turkey to Hungary.
In compliance with European Regulation 608/2013 on the protection of intellectual property, the goods were detained. The owners of the respective brands will be notified of the cases.
Since the beginning of the year, customs officers at the Kapitan Andreevo Border Police have detained nearly 130,000 commercial items due to infringement of intellectual property rights.