Polish police seize haul of illegal cigarettes
PR dla Zagranicy
Paweł Kononczuk
13.12.2018 07:00
Polish police say they have seized 21 million contraband cigarettes.
Photo: http://cbsp.policja.pl
The shipment was intercepted by police and treasury officials in the northern Polish port of Gdańsk.
The cigarettes came from Vietnam in large shipping containers, Poland’s Central Bureau of Police Investigation (CBŚP) said on its website.
If they had been sold on the black market in Poland, the Treasury could have lost out PLN 24 million (EUR 5.5m, USD 6.3m) in excise tax.
The bureau’s officials suspect the cigarettes were heading for two companies in central Poland and were then to be transported to Western Europe.
(bur/pk)
Source: IAR