According to law enforcement agencies, the 53-year-old foreigner was arrested on December 19 in Thessaloniki for smuggling tobacco products. More than 1.4 million smuggled cigarettes were seized. After coordinated operational actions and the discovery of the alleged perpetrator, the police raided a warehouse located in Efkarpia. Found and seized: 71 360 packs of cigarettes (1 […]
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Cigarette smuggling arrest
The police found eight thousand nine hundred packs of contraband cigarettes in a warehouse in the home of a foreigner, a resident of Xanthi, and arrested him. Greek consumers smoked more smuggled cigarettes in 2018 than all other Europeans, according to a Stella KPMG report released Thursday in Athens. Moreover, every fourth cigarette smoked was […]