Cigarettes worth over 1.7 million lei confiscated at the northern border

Border police officers from the Brodina Border Police Sector discovered several bulky packages hidden in vegetation.

Given that there were cigarettes inside, measures were taken to monitor the area in order to identify and apprehend the people involved in transporting the boxes.

At the same time, contact was immediately made with the Ukrainian border authorities, to jointly investigate the event.

The packages were transported to the sector headquarters in order to continue the research, and following their inventory, the quantity of 89,336 packs of cigarettes of duty-free origin, worth 1,727,580 lei , was found.

In this case, the border police are conducting investigations into the commission of the aggravated smuggling crime and documenting the entire criminal activity under the direct supervision of the case prosecutor from the Prosecutor’s Office attached to the Rădăuți Court.