Observations of cigarettes
The employees of a company Graslebener had the authorities in the early evening of the 06th December 2007 telephone informed that on the premises unauthorized persons in suspicious ways to create made. The observations of the caller suggested the envelope of Hehlerware in a storage room out of operation. It posted a police patrol arrived three male persons with a large number and untaxed cheap cigarettes in duty. This resulted in delay forces of the Customs Office, Hanover, Magdeburg-office draws.
The customs investigators were then found that on the premises with a total of 5,750 sticks of cheap cigarette brand “Jin Ling” were. The fiscal damage it caused around 222,000 euros. For transporting hot product had the support of the Technical Relief and control of the Mobile Hauptzollamt Magdeburg be claimed.
Against a 43-year old suspect has adopted an official judge at the request of the Prosecutor Brunswick the following day arrest warrant. The other two arrested, aged between 58 and 59 years were flawed back reasons to set foot free.
With further investigation, the prosecutor Brunswick Zollfahndungsamt the Hannover-Magdeburg-office instructed. The facts from ermittlungstaktischen reasons could only now be reported.
Zöllner in smuggling cigarettes. Officials of the Rostock Customs Commissioner, on Wednesday, the 05th December 2007, the overseas port of Rostock for a routine check 30,000 untaxed cheap cigarettes in a truck found.
From the ferry from Ventspils (Latvia) was the Latvian truck rolled. After the border police check had happened, he was on duty for a review had been selected. In the space of the cab the officers found under a couch the 150 sticks of cigarettes (30,000 pieces).
Against the 45-year-old Latvian rider was a tax criminal proceedings and the cigarettes were seized.
The Hamburg-Zollfahndungsamt Dienstsitz Rostock-over in case further investigations. In the interrogation, the accused, the cigarettes in Germany want to sell profitably.
The injury prevented tax is 5,100 euros. The cigarette cartons had Russian tax stamps.
Arrests for cigarette smuggling in Oakdale and Leipzig
On Tuesday, 04th December 2007, was attended by officials of the customs office in Oakdale Dresden and Leipzig two men to be met by commercial import duty and smuggling untaxed cigarettes from Ukraine into the Federal Republic of Germany and the resale of these cigarettes in the room Leipzig / Halle accused.
Under previous investigations of Tatumfang amounts to at least 1.8 million pieces smuggled cigarettes, representing a tax loss caused by nearly 300,000 euro equivalent.
The competent court issued arrest warrant against both.
One of the suspects - a 33-year-old Polish citizen - remains in custody.
The second suspect - a 42-year-old German citizen residing in Leipzig - was against restrictions on free again set foot.
In close cooperation with the Polish authorities are still ongoing investigations particularly on the men behind organized cigarette smuggling.
