Police discovers cigarettes smuggling schemes

Moldovan police have arrested a road tanker hiding cigarettes bound for Romania, on April 14. They held up the truck a day after Romanian border police discovered other three drivers operating under the same scheme, Info-Prim Neo reports. The Interior Ministry’s Fraud Direction head, Tudor Nicorici, told a news conference on Tuesday, April 15, the tanker was at the Hancesti Police Commissariat, as the probe was under way. He unveiled other information concerning schemes of smuggling cigarettes. On April 14, in Giurgiulesti town, the police arrested a man at whose home they discovered 25,000 imported packs of cigarettes, worth 135,000 lei. The cigarettes were to be carried in personal cars to the Romanian city of Galati. Last week, a smuggling scheme was discovered in the Transnistrian area. The cigarettes were taken over the Nistru in a boat in the Floresti district, and then they were loaded into cars and minibuses. The police seized 125,000 packs of cigarettes, worth 700,000 lei when the smuggled merchandise was unloaded from the boat. An official of the same direction, Vasile Sarco, has said the police unveiled a scheme of distributing a new psychotropic substance styled as dimethoxyametilfenetilamin (DOB). The drug is like a post mark with a picture on it. Taking a small portion of it into the mouth, after contacting the saliva the drug has psychedelic effects on one’s mind. On April 5, the police caught three young men red-handed as they tried to sell 200 doses of DOB, at 200 lei a piece. The police believe the drugs are brought from Britain or Romania, but do not rule out they could be made right in Moldova. The young people used to sell the drugs in night locales, and have been eavesdropped for two months. Now they are in 10-day custody.