In Kallithea, an operation was successfully carried out to detect a warehouse of counterfeit tobacco products. Arrests have been made. According to a report by Stella KPMG, Greek consumers smoked more contraband cigarettes in 2018 than all other Europeans. Of the 43.6 billion illegal cigarettes smoked in the European Union last year, 3.9 billion were […]
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Xanthi: a large-scale fire in tobacco warehouses
There is alarm in the center of Xanthi: tobacco warehouses located in the city center are on fire. The fire department demanded that people be evacuated from the shops located in the area. The fire broke out on the morning of January 18, in warehouses in the area behind KTEL. The relevant service arrived at […]
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 […]
270 kg of hookah tobacco confiscated
Almost 270 kg of contraband hookah tobacco were found and confiscated by the police in a warehouse located in the basement of the Dioikitirio district of Thessaloniki. At the same time, three Syrian citizens were arrested. Operational actions were carried out on April 1 by local law enforcement agencies, immediately after they received information that […]