Violators tried to transfer cigarettes to the neighboring country.

Law enforcement officers of the operational unit of “Selyatyn” border guard division exposed violator’s plan and detected a group of people near the state border with “luggage”. Contrabandists noticed that they were detected leave their goods and started to escape.

During the pursue border guards fired warning shots and detained one of the offenders. Border guards found out that the detainee local citizen. In total, servicemen of the SBGSU found 3,5 thousand packs of tobacco products of different marks. The total amount of goods is 170 thousand of UAH.

All tobacco products were seized and delivered to the border guard division.