Archive for December, 2008

Untaxed cigarettes

Bakers at astray: cigarette smuggling and trafficking as Zubrot

About 35,000 unpaid and untaxed cheap cigarettes were officials of the customs office Dresden on 23.10.2008 in search of residential and commercial spaces of a 42 years old Germans in Ostsachsen.

In a storeroom next to various packages are also smuggled cigarette cartons with the man, a bakery and beverage trading, the smuggled cigarettes, according to its own data since about a year himself and sold them in his business premises.

Based on the evidence and found the statements of the accused is currently the Zollfahndungsamt Dresden from a Tatumfang of about 230,000 unpaid and untaxed cigarettes.
By the businessman to pay tax loss amounted to around 40,000 euros.

Roles were brought into the investigation concerned parents, because the bakers had the cheap cigarettes to underage students from a nearby school sold.
The parents were so totally do not agree and argued inter alia to the school, the facts of the local police department handed over.
This shifted the Zollfahndungsamt Dresden On.

Even the buyer unpaid and untaxed cigarettes committing a tax offense: For Steuerhehlerei Tax Code provides for fines or imprisonment up to five years before

Again suitcase full of rooms smuggling cigarettes

Mobile customs control groups Or mountain and Frankfurt (Oder) stopped in the last two days again several cars along with 260,000 smuggled cigarettes in the luggage compartments and in the vehicle interior.

Glance into the open boot of a car, fully loaded with cigarettes rods is.

On Tuesday morning, controlled the mobile control Frankfurt (Oder), a car not far from Storkow. A 37-year-old Lithuanians here had 100,000 Russian “Jin Ling” cigarettes in his car.

On Tuesday evening reviewed the tax collector from Or mountain in the south of Berlin 23-year Poland. Here they discovered another 60,000 smuggled cigarettes of the trademark “Jin Ling”.

On late Wednesday afternoon were held Zöllner then again from mountain Or 100,000 “Jin Ling” in the car of a 54-year-olds in Poland Fangschleuse location.

The smuggled cigarettes were seized and against all tax Tatbeteiligten criminal proceeding.

The resulting tax loss amounts to around 45,000 euros.

The further investigations into the facts leads Zollfahndungsamt Berlin-Brandenburg.

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cigarettes deliveries

During the subsequent, extensive investigations could begin a cheap cigarette warehouse in an industrial park Osnabrueck identified. After evidence from this camp held compacted deliveries had occurred access last Wednesday against clock 14:00. It took the forces a 39-year old Lithuanian nationals and a 62-year old German citizen of a provisional basis. They are suspected of having the goods during the smuggling or accompanied with the assistance unloading it. 2,348,800 and unpaid untaxed cigarettes of brands “Jin Ling” and “L & M” were secured.

After a small truck to pick up a second delivery to the location returned, was his 24-year old German driver also arrested and the vehicle is ensured.

The investigators found were then also in three other searches. Bersenbrück in the space provided in a farm house and a total of 711,180 cigarette brands “Jin Ling” and “Marlboro” safely. Two German suspects aged between 44 and 45 years were provisionally arrested. The older of the two is suspicious, storage and sale of smuggled goods have to be organized. In the car of the accused PRE cash amounting to 47,000 euros has also been ensured.

Finally, in the garage and also searched another house in Ankum 1,045,317 cigarette brand “Jin Ling” seized. The 36-year-old Canadian homeowners has been provisionally arrested. He is suspected of having the entire smuggling activities have to be coordinated.

The fiscal damage caused is estimated at around 785,000 euros.

After screening at the investigative judge of the district court adopted this Osnabrueck at the request of the Prosecutor on 23 Osnabruck October 2008 arrest warrant against three suspects. The others arrested were free again to set foot.

At the deployment forces, 26 of the duty officers and several police departments in Osnabrück and Bersenbrück involved. These were the THW Osnabrueck when transporting the seized cigarettes supported.

With further investigation, the prosecutor Osnabrueck the Zollfahndungsamt Hanover – Dienstsitz Bremen – instructs.

Because of the investigations could follow the publication of the apprehended until now done.

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