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cigrarette smuggling

Customs and Trade News Smuggling 

Gunfire to detain Ukrainian national caught smuggling cigarettes at northern border

17th March 202314th March 2023 Tony Kingham cigrarette smuggling, smuggling

On the 1st March, border police officers noticed four people carrying bulky parcels from the border line to the interior

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Customs and Trade News Smuggling 

Bulgarian Customs inspectors from “Anti Drug Trafficking – Rousse” discovered a stash with over 57,000 cigarettes in a passenger van

6th March 20235th March 2023 Tony Kingham Bulgaria, cigrarette smuggling, smuggling

During a customs inspection of a passenger minibus, officers from the “Anti Drug Trafficking – Rousse” Sector in the TD

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Cross Border Crime News Smuggling 

Nearly 54,000 cigarettes with Bulgarian labels were seized during four checks

27th February 202327th February 2023 Tony Kingham cigrarette smuggling, smuggling

During an inspection of a car traveling to France, another 17,680 cigarettes with a Bulgarian excise label were found. Customs

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News Smuggling 

Traffickers smuggling tobacco from Belarus busted in Poland

23rd February 202320th February 2023 Tony Kingham cigrarette smuggling, cross border crime, smuggling

Europol supported the Polish Border Guard (Straż Graniczna), the Police Central Bureau of Investigation (Centralne Biuro Śledcze Policji) and the

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Cross Border Crime News Smuggling 

More than 140,000 pieces smuggled cigarettes were detained by the Bulgarian customs officers of Kapitan Andreevo BCP

21st February 202320th February 2023 Tony Kingham Bulgaria, cigrarette smuggling, cross border crime

The customs officers of  Kapitan Andreevo BCP discovered more than 140,000 pieces smuggled cigarettes during two inspections of vehicles entering

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Cross Border Crime Customs and Trade News 

Bulgarian Customs officers at Lesovo BCP found a large amount of sexual stimulants and cigarettes in a car

20th February 202313th February 2023 Tony Kingham Bulgaria, cigrarette smuggling, cross border crime, sexual stimulants, smuggling

Customs officers at Lesovo BCP found contraband 13 650 packs of sexual stimulant and 9800 cigarettes in a car with

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Counterfeit Goods Customs and Trade News 

Nearly 65,000 pieces smuggled cigarettes were discovered by the Bulgarian customs officers 

16th February 202312th February 2023 Tony Kingham Bulgaria, cigrarette smuggling

64,800 pieces (3,240 boxes) of smuggled cigarettes were found by the customs officials during three inspections of the Kapitan Andreevo.

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Customs and Trade News Smuggling 

Contraband cigarettes, worth over 1.5 million euros, discovered hidden in a truck

2nd February 20232nd February 2023 Tony Kingham cigrarette smuggling, cross border crime, romania

On 21.01.2023 at the Romanian Bechet Border Crossing Point, a 51-year-old Bulgarian citizen presented himself to enter the country, driving

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Counterfeit Goods News 

Counterfeit tobacco products worth EUR 17 million seized in France

17th January 202317th January 2023 Tony Kingham cigrarette smuggling, counterfeit cigarettes

During the raids last week, the French officers arrested nine suspects, most of them Moldovan nationals. The gendarmes discovered a

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News Smuggling 

3 tonnes of tobacco, 2 million cigarettes seized at EU’s external borders

9th January 20239th January 2023 Tony Kingham cigrarette smuggling

Frontex coordinated an international operation against cigarette smuggling, document fraud, migrant smuggling and smuggling of firearms at EU’s external borders.

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Customs and Trade Smuggling 

Man jailed after more than three million cigarettes seized

23rd December 202221st December 2022 Tony Kingham ABF, Australian Border Force, cigrarette smuggling, customs, smuggling

​A man who orchestrated a huge importation of illegal tobacco from the Middle East to Melbourne has been sentenced to two

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Customs and Trade News Smuggling 

Over half a million cigarettes were seized by police during special operations in Haskovsko and Pernik

22nd December 202221st December 2022 Tony Kingham cigrarette smuggling, cross border crime

More than 502,000 pieces of excise-free tobacco products were seized by police officers from the ODMVR – Haskovo during an

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Customs and Trade News 

Cigarettes worth 1.5 million euros confiscated by the Romanian border police

9th December 20226th December 2022 Tony Kingham cigrarette smuggling

Following the control of the semi-trailer, the border police officers discovered the amount of 555,000 cigarette packs, without fiscal markings.

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Customs and Trade News 

Man in preventive detention for transporting a truck full of 12 million contraband cigarettes

24th November 202217th November 2022 Tony Kingham cigrarette smuggling

Following the criminal investigation activities carried out by border police officers from the IGPF and the prosecutors of the Directorate

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News Smuggling 

Cigarettes found in railway carriage chassis

23rd November 202217th November 2022 Tony Kingham cigrarette smuggling, smuggling

Cigarettes without Polish excise duty were found in the structural elements of the freight train by officers from the Nadbużański

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Customs and Trade News 

More than 350,000 cigarettes were seized by the customs officials from TD Customs Rousse

17th November 202217th November 2022 Tony Kingham cigrarette smuggling, smuggling

During a joint inspection, customs officers and border police found undeclared 11,700 boxes (234,000 pieces) of cigarettes with a Bulgarian

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Customs and Trade News Smuggling 

Gunshots during a smuggling operation. Cigarettes worth 70,000 lei confiscated near the Tisa river

27th October 202224th October 2022 Tony Kingham cigrarette smuggling, smuggling cigarettes

On October 21, border police officers on the state border surveillance mission observed, on the Romanian bank of the Tisa

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Customs and Trade News 

Tobacco products and cigarette manufacturing equipment seized in international action

1st September 202231st August 2022 Tony Kingham cigrarette smuggling, cross border crime

An action day in Belgium has led to the seizure of over 57 million cigarettes and more than 48 tons

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