Zollfahndern succeed again big blow to cigarette smugglers

In the evening hours of the 17th July 2008 was carried out by officers of the Customs Office Hanover the provisional arrest of three German nationals.

Investigations in the context of relevant already appeared in Zigarettenschmugglern brought the customs investigators to track down a deposit of duty and untaxed cheap cigarettes.

On the grounds of a former farm in the district of Wolfenbüttel, three German nationals caught in Umladearbeiten encountered cartons of cigarettes.

In the rented and used as a storage barn were packed in original boxes around 9.5 million smuggled cigarettes of brands "Jin Ling" and "Palace" was found.

The 28 - to 42-year-old suspect led cash in the amount of 2,700 euros with it.

The resulting tax loss amounts to at least 1.8 million euros.

For the removal of the cigarettes was the support of the Technical Assistance by the local Brunswick and Wolfenbüttel required the three trucks had to work.

The suspects are at the request of the Prosecutor Brunswick detention judge court Wolfenbuettel have been presented to the trial against all three parties adopted.

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Nine arrests for surrender of illegal cigarettes in Celle

2.1 million piece of chicken meat smuggled cigarettes seized

Cigarette Fund of customs officials have Hanover Office late yesterday evening in Celle nine suspected members of a Zigarettenhehlerrings provisionally arrested and some 2.1 million pieces of cigarettes seized eingeschmuggelte.

The access was made against 22:30 clock on a site in a hall Celler Gewerbegebiet. There were the nine arrested busy unpaid and untaxed cigarettes from a Latvian trucks to unload. The illegal merchandise was in a Kühlauflieger, to better camouflage the next cigarette poultry transported. Overall, the Kühlfahrzeug nearly 2.1 million pieces of cigarettes of the brand "Jin Ling" is loaded, and the resulting tax loss of approximately 395,000 euros.

The male suspects are consistently 20 to 44 years old. Among them there are five German nationals residing in the area of Celle. The four other defendants are from the Baltics.

Following the arrest of the Customs investigators searched several homes in the area of Celle. This, they further 20,000 cigarettes and a total of around 15,000 euros cash safe.

Five of those arrested today, after interrogations were again released. The other defendants are in the course of the morning today on behalf of the Prosecutor Lüneburg prison judges will be presented.

Further investigation leads on behalf of the Prosecutor Lüneburg Zollfahndungsamt Hanover-Dienstsitz Magdeburg.
Additional information:

The cigarette brand "Jin Ling" is produced in Kaliningrad and seems more and more customers to find. This is to ensure increasing numbers of this variety. In the year 2007, nationwide about 75 million pieces of "Jin Ling" seized.

Cigarette smuggling is a tax offense and may be industrial or band moderate ascent with imprisonment up to ten years. It is also buying untaxed cigarettes as Steuerhehlerei prosecution.