Beat against cigarette smuggling: 12,500 e-cigarettes on A5 secured!
Beat against cigarette smuggling: 12,500 e-cigarettes on A5 secured!
on Autobahn 5, at the Baden-Baden rest area, a large-scale cigarette smuggling broke open last week! Customs officers stopped a Polish van in which incredible 12,517 e-cigarettes with a total volume of 272,325 ml liquid hidden without the necessary tax receipts. The estimated tax evasion amounts to a whopping 54,465 euros.
The 28-year-old Belarusian driver was arrested, while the customs officers ensured that the goods should probably be transported from the Netherlands to Portugal. "An important success in the fight against tax evasion and tobacco smuggling," emphasized press spokesman Pascal Griesbach. In this explosive case, the e-cigarettes were confiscated and an investigation into tax evasion was initiated. The complete tobacco tax was set and the research is in full swing. Shocking developments in illegal trade! as www.presseportal.de reports .
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Ort | Baden-Baden, Deutschland |
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