Members of the Financial Administration (FS) As part of the event called Meeting, they revealed an illegal cigarette factory in Žilina and secured more than 43 million units. The preliminary damage was estimated at EUR 9.7 million. TASR informed FS spokesman Daniel Súkup on Thursday.
The armed members of the FS Criminal Office searched out industrial buildings in Žilina, where they found an illegal cigarette factory and stopped the truck set fully loaded with consumer packs of cigarettes, without labeling valid control stamps. “Overall, members of the Financial Administration ensured a complete illegal production line, cigarette package, tobacco cutter and dryer, a tobacco mixture and another truck set fully loaded with unmarked unmarked cigarette consumer packs,” He said the contest.
In the premises of the illegal manufacturer, they also found packaging materials, components and produced cigarettes. The price of the device itself is estimated at approximately one million euros. There were 43.5 million cigarettes and 17.5 tons of tobacco mixture on the spot. According to FS spokesman, the preliminary damage was estimated at EUR 9.7 million.
‘One person of Polish nationality was detained on suspicion of a crime of violation of regulations on state technical measures to indicate goods in conjunction with the offense of unauthorized alcohol production, tobacco and tobacco products committed in the form of complicity. If it is guilty, this person is subject to a prison sentence of three to eight years, ” He added a contest.
