During a search, law enforcement officers found more than 30 thousand packs of Russian-made cigarettes in a garage in the village of Gatishche, Volchansky district, Kharkov region.
According to the State Border Service, the discovered tobacco products were without excise duty stamps.. On their packaging it was noted that they were produced at the Rostov Tobacco Factory.
The day before border guards discovered the fact of illegal activity on the state border. When carrying out special events to search for persons involved in illegal activities by operational officers of the Kharkov detachment, the place of accumulation of goods illegally moved from Russia to Ukraine outside the established checkpoints was established.
The total cost of cigarettes according to preliminary estimates is more than 1.2 million hryvnias..