Nicotine Chocolates
Lübecker Customs discovered over 17,700 smuggled cigarettes hidden in chocolates and cornflakes packets.
Kelloggspackung opened with smuggling cigarettes. On 15 October 2008 Customs officers checked at Luebeck Skandinavienkai one with the car ferry from Riga entered 34-year old Latvian citizen and his 32-year Beifahrerin. Both were on their way to England. On questioning by the customs officers gave the passengers in first, no cigarettes or other goods notification is required. On repeated questioning, however, they then each 200 cigarettes for his own one.
Now decided to officials in Britain approved the mini-van a closer scrutiny of their choice. Several baggage stowed between the chocolates and cornflakes packets have not had the hoped-candy, but Russian cigarette boxes with the contents. When searching for other smuggling has been hiding the entire interior of the vehicle gutted.
Set free all vehicle voids led to the finding of a total of 886 brands of cigarette packs “Jin Ling” and “L & M”.
Against the pair, a criminal tax because of the suspicion of commercial tax evasion initiated. Both will shortly publish a punishment delivered its height the next trip home will certainly take some time to back moves.
The smuggled cigarettes were all seized. The resulting tax loss amounted to nearly 3,400 euros.
Four wire-puller of organized smuggling arrested in Hamburg
The Zollfahndungsamt Hamburg on 15 October 2008 as part of a large-scale search and arrest action on behalf of the Prosecutor Stade Four leading minds in the field of organized smuggling were arrested. Overall, they searched 13 residential and commercial properties.
These were 75 officers of the Customs Office and the Hamburg customs special unit ZUZ from Cologne officials and 20 other special units of duty in action.
After nearly year-long investigation on Wednesday morning was the 56-year-old German of Russian origin Peter S. and his accomplice Dirk P., Alexander B. and Joachim V. Neugraben in Hamburg, New Deer and Celle arrested.
Them and at least three other defendants will be to support a criminal association in connection with the organized smuggling of cigarettes from southern Europe and Lithuania accused.
It took S. and his accomplice their professional knowledge in international freight forwarding business in order to carry out his own cigarette shipments. There were front companies set up to the deeds to hide. In the course of the investigation were already 900,000 untaxed cigarettes and 15,000 euro cash will be ensured.
Since the accused also for other criminal groups were active and where their logistics made available, the real Tatumfang is much higher. For what quantity of contraband cigarettes, the organization ultimately responsible must be only after analysis of seized evidence definitively known.
The arrests are a great success to evaluate, because the accused is not “small fish”, but at the organizational level. There was extensive evidence, primarily business records were seized. Peter S., Alexander B., Joachim V. P. and Dirk have already repeatedly with various criminal offenses in appearance underfoot.
The four accused are in custody.
