As part of operational checks, two foreigners were arrested in the Kolonos area by police officers. Law enforcement agencies received information about a mini-market in Kolonos selling contraband tobacco products. As part of the investigation, surveillance was established of a man who left a certain house in Kolonos and went to the specified store with […]
Tag: tobacco smuggling
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 […]
Case … tobacco
A common myth is that Greece has cheap cigarettes compared to Northern Europe. The reality, however, is that the critical parameter is not the retail price, which is always related to the disposable income of consumers. The decisive factor is the size of taxes in relation to the retail price, and here the picture is […]
Two arrests for cigarette and alcohol smuggling
In the Imathia and Pella districts, the police arrested 2 men who were involved in the sale and delivery of unlicensed alcohol and tobacco products. During a search in the house of a resident of Imathia, 414 packs of cigarettes were found and confiscated, for which the legal taxes and fees were not paid. A […]