The State Fiscal Service continues the operation "Excise", during which the shadow market for the manufacture and smuggling of alcohol, tobacco, and also fuel and lubricants. Only for the first half of 2017, Zaporozhye fiscal officials seized from the turnover of illegal goods by 11 million hryvnia. This is reported by the GFS.

From year to year, the illegal Internet market is growing at a serious rate, almost half of the seized smuggling and falsification was sold through the World Wide Web. Thus, violators get a false sense of security, but all ultimately appear before the law.

So, for half a year the GFS employees disclosed 7 facts of illegal sale of excisable goods via the Internet, and 8 facts of counterfeit production were covered, 7 of which are related to counterfeit alcohol.