The sale of illegal tobacco products will cost the merchant dearly. Incident in Sevastopol

2021 In the period from 2019 to 2021 years, a man with experience as a sales representative in the field of tobacco sales products, has established the delivery, storage and sale of unmarked tobacco products in Sevastopol, the press service of the Investigative Committee reported. He stored illegal goods in rented garages and delivered them to entrepreneurs for sale. He sent unmarked cigarettes to the Karachay-Cherkess Republic, Krasnodar, Stavropol Territory, Novosibirsk, Tver, Nizhny Novgorod and Orenburg regions. In addition, the man acquired a fake driver’s license in order to deliver cigarettes to wholesale buyers , the press service of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs in Sevastopol reported.

An illegal tobacco migrant was detained in October 2021 of the year. During the search, more than 112 thousand unmarked packs of cigarettes worth more than million rubles were confiscated from him, and also about 900 thousand rubles in cash, computer equipment. As part of the preliminary investigation, 12 biological and four technical and forensic examinations were carried out.

The criminal case was sent to the prosecutor’s office for subsequent transfer to the court.