After a customs inspection, on Thursday the FIOD seized about 20 million illegal cigarettes and 23,000 kilograms of unlawful tobacco in a buying heart in the municipality of Haarlemmermeer. In just one get rid of there have been pallets with plastic-wrapped packing containers that contains cartons of cigarettes and tobacco. There ended up also large portions of packaging substance, filters and tissue paper. No one was arrested.
8.6 million euros
It is not nonetheless recognized which region the cigarettes and tobacco had been supposed for, according to the FIOD. If these had finished up on the Dutch market place, an amount of around 8.6 million euros in excise responsibility would have been evaded. Since then all cigarettes and tobacco have been eradicated and ruined.
Purposeful parquet
The FIOD carries out the investigations which are guided by the purposeful Community Prosecutor’s Office environment.
The high excise obligation on tobacco helps make the creation of illegal cigarettes even extra interesting. Check out the most up-to-date posts on black cigarettes:
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