Smuggled cigarettes from Belarus confiscated in Kovel

• 31.07.2015, 17:45

The State Fiscal Service of Ukraine confiscated 112,500 packs of smuggled cigarettes without excise stamps in the Volyn region.

The total cost of the confiscated goods is more than 1 million hryvnias, charter97.org learnt from the main department of the State Fiscal Service for the Volyn region.

Cigarettes without excise stamps produced by Donskoy Tabak company (Russia), Grodno-based Tobacco Factory Neman (Belarus) and brands Condrad and Miles produced by India, according to the bar code, of a total cost of 135,000 hryvnias were confiscated in warehouses in Kovel by investigators. The goods were brought to Ukraine from Moldova.

Law-enforcers seized a vehicle used by a courier company for delivering smuggled cigarettes.