Smugglers tried to transfer cigarettes to Romania

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03 of May 2020 13:22

Border guards of Chernivtsi border guard detachment detained two local citizens that were suspected in tobacco products smuggling.

Border guards of “Selyatyn” border guard division with the help of thermal imager detected unknown persons nearby the state border. A few persons were moving to the state border with packages.

Response team started to pursue violators, but when contrabandists noticed about that they were detected left 7 packages with cigarettes and started to escape.  

During the search operation, border guards found citizen of Chernivtsi region who hid in border area without any documents. Servicemen of the SBGSU detained him.

Another one contrabandist was detected by the servicemen of “Mamalyha” border guard division. Border guards detained citizen of Novoselytskyi district in 20 meters to the state border with 800 packs of cigarettes.

In both cases violators were prosecuted for the attempt of illegal border crossing. Their future will be decided by the court.

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