Two brothers were caught running a clandestine cigarette business. In the house of one of them, the police discovered a mini-cigarette factory, IPN reports, with reference to the General Police Inspectorate.

Police officers carried out searches in the house situated in Balti municipality and found tobacco and other objects worth a total of 500,000 lei. “Seven bags of tobacco, over 300 liters of alcohol, vegetable mass with a specific smell, a cigarette manufacturing device and over 300,000 cardboard tubes for injecting tobacco into cigarettes were seized,” the Inspectorate said.

The police noted that the men have higher legal and economic studies. One of the two brothers is 39 years old, while the other one is 48.

The criminal investigation process continues.