Students caught smuggling cigarettes among cherries and chocolate boxes
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Customs officers found 780 packs of cigarettes hidden in different parts
of a VW Cady car at the Leuseni-Albita customs post. Another 20 packs
were discovered in a bag with biscuits.
According to a communiqué from the Customs Service, quoted by Info-Prim
Neo, the vehicle with Ukrainian license number was driven by a citizen
of Ukraine. The car was going out of Moldova. The cigarettes were seized
and the driver fined for cigarette smuggling.
Another cigarette smuggling case was identified in a car of the
Chisinau-Bucharest train, at the customs post Ungheni-Cristesti. Two
Moldovans studying in Iasi hid over 300 packs of cigarettes among bags
with cherries and boxes of chocolate. The contraband was confiscated.