Under the procedural control of the Transcarpathian Regional Prosecutor’s Office, an indictment was filed against a 24-year-old resident of Vynogradiv district for attempting to transport more than 20,000 packs of cigarettes to the EU.
It has been established that the Transcarpathian purchased tobacco products without excise duty stamps for the purpose of their further transportation and sale on the territory of Romania. To do this, he hid the package, which contained 20,750 packs of cigarettes, in the tractor trailer and on August 31 of this year set off to the forest in the border area.
The offender’s plan failed: he was detained by officers of the Mukachevo Border Guard Detachment and the State Fiscal Service in Transcarpathian region. With the aprroval of the regional prosecutor’s office, the investigating judge arrested the tobacco products and the vehicle. The actions of the defendant are classified as illegal acquisition, storage and transportation for the purpose of sale of illegally manufactured tobacco products (Part 1 of Article 204 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine).
Press service of the Transcarpathian regional prosecutor’s office
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