Cash and carry
An oligarch with $160,000 cash, and a man smuggling $40,000 in fish are among those caught at the airport bringing unreported cash into Israel, the tax authority reports.
In October 2018, the Israel Tax Authority's customs officers at Ben Gurion Airport's arrivals Masada VIP Lounge found $160,000 (NIS 582,000) in cash on Russian-Israeli billionaire Valery Kogan. By law he was obliged to have reported any amount above NIS 50,000 that he was bringing into the country.
This was one of 96 such cases in the first half of 2018 that the Israel Tax Authority Committee for imposing Financial Sanctions was required to rule on that was released for publication earlier this week.