Attempts to smuggle in tobacco products across the Ukrainian-Romanian border were thwarted last night by border guards near Solotvino in Transcarpathia.

During the realization of the information received from the officers of internal and private security bodies, a joint border patrol consisting of servicemen of the Solotvino border guard division, the operative-search department and the internal and private security department noticed the movement of unknown persons towards the Tisza River on Romanian border. While trying to detain the plotters tried to escape. As a result of further search operations, 70 meters from the border, border guards found packages of 4,500 packs of cigarettes abandoned by smugglers.

The smuggled goods, estimated at 180,000 hryvnias, were delivered to the Solotvino border guard division, which will later be handed over to the State Fiscal Service of Ukraine.