fall (Badajoz / Elvas): Six men entered Portugal with tobacco bags in taxis.
The Fiscal Action Unit GNR yesterday made the seizure of 124 thousand cigarettes, with a total value of 36 thousand euros, an inspection operation on the border of Caia, in Elvas county (Portalegre).
The operation was developed by the Fiscal Action Detachment of Évora, no Sunday, under the Operation “New Year” da GNR.
The military approached three Portuguese taxis square of Elvas, from Spain, inside which were detected 6.200 tobacco packs, with 124 thousand cigarettes, packed in ten suitcases, according to a statement released today GNR.
Six men suspected, four Portuguese and two Angolans, aged 26 and 59 year old, They identified, It has been prepared the respective notices of administrative offense of unlawful introduction into the consumer, once “tobacco packs did not have the special stamp legally required for marketing in Portugal”, the statement added.
Major Luis Garcia, Detachment of Évora Fiscal Action explained that the seized goods have “a total of 36 thousand euros”, corresponding to “a tax evasion 28.800 euros, in tax and VAT tax”.
According to the official “the testimony of tobacco suspects had destined for the black market in Lisbon”, finished.
Teixeira Correia
(journalist)
