In the port of Odessa, border guards detained a record in terms of volume and value of the cargo of contraband cigarettes, reports “Strana”.
Smuggling has arrived from the United Arab Emirates. “Yesterday, on April 23, officers of the State Border Service, together with the Strategic Investigations Department of the National Police, completed an inspection of 12 containers with a cargo of cigarettes that were at the terminals of the Odessa MTP … As a result of the inspection of the containers, more than 13.7 thousand boxes of cigarettes were found. The amount of cargo assessment is about UAH 145 million, ”the State Border Service said in a statement. It is assumed that Odessa is a transit city, then the contraband was to be sent to the countries of the European Union.