Timisoara border authorities confiscated about a ton and a half of turbot fish and shark species which the crew processed illegally on the Romanian fishing vessel. Two foreigners - a Bulgarian and Turkish are investigated in this case, Mediafax reports.
Police checked on Sunday a van registered in Bulgaria with two men on it and discovered a quantity of more than 390 pounds of turbot.
The two men presented policemen transport documentation for other quantities of fish not the one in the van and told them they had purchased the turbot from the commandant of a Romanian fishing vessel, from the Tomis Harbour, with the purpose of transporting it in Bulgaria.
After extending the research, policemen found on board the fishing vessel over 900 kilos of shark fish species, which had been processed without permit by the crew members.
The action of the border police was supported by representatives of the Sanitary Veterinary Unit and of the National Agency for Fisheries and Aquaculture, who considered that the amount of fish found on board the fishing vessel, nearly 400 kilograms was unfit for consumption.
Border police seized the van and all the fish found in the car and on board the fishing vessel and opened a criminal investigation for the offences of processing of fishery products and aquaculture without the right and possession, transportation or sale without legal documents of the fish, eggs or fish products.