The member states cannot make provision for failures to abide by the obligation to declare large sums of cash entering or leaving their territory to be fined at a level of up to twice the undeclared amount, the Court of Justice of the EU ruled in a judgement returned on Thursday 31 May (case C-190/17).
In 2014, Chinese national Lu Zheng registered his luggage at Gran Canaria airport (Spain) for a flight to Hong Kong (China), stopping in Madrid (Spain) and Amsterdam (Netherlands). In Madrid,...