In Bukovina, employees of customs and border bodies will be judged with the assistance of the smuggling of electronic cigarettes and evasion of 42 million UAH of customs payments. This was reported by the office of the Prosecutor General on Sunday, February 2.

Prosecutors of the Chernivtsi regional prosecutor's office sent a indictment to the court against employees of customs and border bodies.

They are accused of complicity of tax evasion when importing excisable goods and excess of official powers to Ukraine, which entailed serious consequences.

Two officials of one of the customs posts of Chernivtsi customs together with an employee of the border service contributed to illegal import through the customs and state border of Ukraine electronic cigarettes.

The accused deliberately ignored the fact of importing electronic cigarettes from Europe to Ukraine, "

Watch the photo gallery: customs officers contributed to the smuggling of electronic cigarettes like this, as a result of the unlawful actions of the accused in Ukraine, almost 170 thousand electronic cigarettes were illegally imported, and the state budget did not receive almost 42 million UAH. tax and customs payments.

Recall that in the Lviv region, an attempt to illegally export equipment for the manufacture of cigarettes through the Krakovets checkpoint was prevented..

It was also reported that at the customs post of Small Bereznaya on the border with Slovakia, Transcarpathian customs officers discovered almost two thousand packs of smuggled cigarettes in a double -bottom car.