The most unusual discoveries customs officials

Today, October 25 is the Day of customs officer of the Russian Federation. And the holiday turns out to be a long time — on this day in 1653 in the country appeared first on the common customs Statute, born from the decree of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich on collection of customs duties "in Moscow and the Russian cities". In honor of the holiday we remember the most unusual discoveries customs officials around the world.

Customs difficult to surprise and after many years of service they have every seen. But sometimes the smugglers are trying to transport a very very unusual and strange objects.

Customs service Miami airport was stunned to discover this Egyptian sarcophagus age of 3 thousand years. Fairly weird "Luggage" for export from Spain. Zahi Hawass, who was then the head of the Supreme Council of Egyptian antiquities (left), came to the US to pick up the sarcophagus, which is believed to have been stolen from Egypt more than 100 years ago. (AFP / Getty Images)

It is armed stuffed Armadillo was sent to Australia from Texas as a gift, but it was confiscated in Sydney because of a violation of Australian laws about importing wild animals. Customs officers even joked that, they say, "it is so tasteless that the only reason you can not let the country that's stuffed". (Australian Customs and Border Protection Service)

Employees of Munich airport was shocked to find a skeleton in the Luggage of two Italians during the scan. Women said that the remains of their relative, who died in Brazil, they would like to bury in Italy. After the presentation of a death certificate, which says that the person died a natural death, the Italians were allowed to bring the remains home. (Arthur Turner / Alamy)

Illegal weapons has long been at the head of the list of items most often confiscated at customs, but not all the bags can boast such a variety of masks. This set was confiscated at the Swiss border from a group of French. (AFP / Getty Images)

24-year-old man was arrested at Sydney airport in 2009 for trying to smuggle in the Luggage of four snakes and various species of lizards. (Australian Customs and Border Protection Service)

Employees of the airport John F. Kennedy in 2009 in new York city detained the passenger from Korea, who was found with two notes of 100 thousand dollars. These rare notes were issued in 1934, but never got into General circulation. Of course, Korean banknote was fake. (Peter Titmuss / Alamy)

On the border of Lewiston and Queenston between Canada and the United States in 2008, 50-year-old man from Barbados has caused suspicion of the customs officer, having declared 100 bottles of "Holy water". Holy water was liquid ketamine. (First Light / Alamy; U. S. Customs and Border Protection)

Should tip my hat to the ambition of the smuggler who tried to transport 70 animals, including crocodiles (pictured) in his Luggage on a flight from Bangkok to Johannesburg in 2009. (Jacqueline Roberts / Alamy)

Employees of the Munich airport once found in the Luggage of a decomposing head of a monkey, which was discovered by the smell. Fortunately, we have no pictures of her. (Avatra images / Alamy)

Since we're talking about heads of Customs services of the airport in Denver, to his horror and disgust, found the severed head of a seal in the bag a teacher of biology. The teacher said cut it off with an already dead animal and that is going to use it for "educational purposes". (Jason Roberts / Alamy)

In 2010, more than 350 copies of Faberge eggs was discovered in the Paris airport Charles de Gaulle. They were smuggled out of Russia. (AFP / Getty Images)

Greece police have charged two U.S. tourists with desecrating the dead, found in their hand baggage, six human skulls. The tourists said that they had bought the skulls in a souvenir shop and thought they were fake. (nicolas nadjar / Alamy)

And this "cargo" has not yet managed to confiscate ... this image, obtained by scanning of the media and the Brazilian Federal police, you can see the bags of cocaine in the gastrointestinal tract of 20-year-old Irish citizen, who was arrested by Brazilian police at the airport Congonhas in Sao Paulo. The young man, whose name has not been disclosed, was stopped while trying to Board a plane bound for Brussels. In the intestine of the arrested were 72 tea bags, which was almost a kilogram of cocaine.