At the international checkpoint Reni-Giurgiulesti during the inspection of the truck in the customs regime of "export" law enforcement officers found contraband tobacco products.

Their total amount is estimated at almost a million dollars. As reported by the Office of the SBU in the region, from all specially equipped caches they seized almost 5,5 thousand packs of cigarettes without excise stamps. According to the intelligence service, local businessmen bought cheap cigarettes and illegally imported to Ukraine from the territory of the unrecognized Transnistria.

After that, they planned to sell them in the EU several times more expensive.

The police opened a criminal case and continues the primary investigative and operational actions to establish all persons involved in the operation of the contraband channel.

Recall, as reported URA-Inform, in the Odessa region on Tuesday morning, November 21, the police stopped the illegal supply of ethyl alcohol to Ukraine. He was sent to our territory from a neighboring state. A total of 60 thousand tons.