Employees of the Moscow customs revealed a large unregistered consignment of cigarettes worth more than 5 million rubles

Metropolitan customs officers found a large unregistered party of cigarettes with a total value of 171.72 5 348 million rubles. In the course of operational search activities, the customs officers found that the tobacco product was imported into the territory of the Eurasian economic Union without customs control, customs payments and were not labeled with excise stamps.

Taken in two trucks to more than 350 cartons of cigarettes were manufactured in Romania and was designed exclusively for sale in duty free shops Duty Free. According to the documents the goods were issued as a “materials for suspended ceilings” and “food additives”. In this case the information about crossing the state border of the Russian Federation these cars in the database is not fixed.

On the given fact criminal case under part 1 of article 194 of the RF criminal code “evasion from payment of customs payments in the large size”.

Rustam Babayev
press Secretary of the Moscow customs