In Kouvola, a city located in the south-east of Finland, customs officers are on their toes. The Russian border and Saint Petersburg are just over 80 kilometers away and, with the economic sanctions targeting Russia, the 1,340 kilometers of common border between the two countries have become a strategic area, to be watched. with even more attention.
“Since the start of the war, Finnish customs have initiated more than 250 procedures in connection with products intended for export, including luxury cars, sonars, heat pumps and cash.” So many goods that are supposed to no longer be exported to Russia, writes the american newspaper The Wall Street Journal, who went there.
Customs officers are now very attentive to passenger vehicles leaving Finland, whose drivers “are now at risk of breaking export rules, like this man arrested last July while trying to work
