Again, the customs inspection unit of the main roads Customs Office in Frankfurt (Oder) several apprehended in the fight against illegal smuggling of cigarettes for consumption.
Several sticks of cigarettes where hidden in a box. On Wednesday, 12 November 2008, on the Highway 11 to Berlin, a Polish car at the exit Joachimsthal was stoped for control. The officials started the sirens and asked the driver using Anhaltekelle to hold on, where upon this tried, with a high speed to escape.
The prosecution resulted ride over a distance of around 20 kilometers and ended on an unpaved side in a wooded area in Jáchymov. The suspect flead from the vehicle and escaped undetected. In the trunk and passenger compartment of the car were a total of eight packages, each with 10,000 cigarettes.
Even in the D-train 342 Kiev-Berlin were on the morning of the 13th November 2008 by the customs 60,000 cigarettes will be ensured. Hides, these include in bed in the passenger compartment. A few hours later, the customs officials found in the roadI i a joint control with colleagues from the Federal Police were in Knighton a German car with 50,000 cigarettes. Overall, the tax claims around 32,000 euros Customs officers seized some 28,000 untaxed cigarettes. Due to the announcements made by officials of the residents have control of the infrastructure unit Hauptzollamt Berlin in a multifamily dwelling on Baumschulenweg in Berlin-Treptow targeted. Here they found that male persons, presumably Vietnamese nationality, allegedly cigarette smuggling.
Police and customs are in Sydney again large amount untaxed cigarettes safely.
Customs and police are again in the fight against cigarette smuggling found anything. After a notice of the police station in Darmstadt-Dieburg received, the officials reviewed the data and discovered on Tuesday evening, 24 April 2007 in a former store into a farm Babenhausen more than 200 boxes of smuggled cheap cigarettes.
The herbeigerufenen officials of the customs office of Frankfurt am Main, the approximately one million untaxed cheap cigarettes over the safe and further investigations. "After a preliminary examination, we assume, that the seizures of counterfeit discount cigarettes," said one of the Customs investigators. With regard to the perpetrators can not yet be specified. The investigations are in full swing.
The tax loss amounts to some 200,000 euros.
Last year, the customs nationwide 415 million untaxed discount cigarettes safely. A large portion of this amount were forgeries. The pollutant content of fake and discount counterfeit cigarettes are often higher than the original brands, and thus more dangerous. |