Elvas: Two arrested and nearly ten million cigarettes seized. 1,8 million euros escape the tax authorities.
In an operation that ended in Elvas, the Judicial Police detained, on Monday, two people and seized a container with nearly ten million contraband cigarettes. Damage caused to the state will be 1,8 million.
The detainees are two men, of 59 and 68 years, suspected of qualified smuggling crime, refers to PJ in a statement, Wednesday. Damage caused to the state will be 1,8 million
The arrests were made by the National Anti-Corruption Unit, as part of an investigation led by the Department of Investigation and Penal Action (DIAP) Lisbon.
cigarettes, das marcas Maywand e Mohawk (File photo of a seizure of Fiscal Action Unit GNR in Vendas Novas), They totaled 9.880.000 units and, on the operation, which ended in the Elvas area, They were also seized a light vehicle and five mobile phones.
PJ estimates that the damage caused to the State, corresponding to the tax that was not levied on that tobacco, reaches 1,8 million. The operation involved the collaboration of the Traffic Brigade of the GNR of Estremoz.
The District Attorney General Lisbon (PGDL) also reported that the traffic brigade of Estremoz GNR intercepted, on Monday, a truck bound for Spain, carrying 988 Tobacco boxes in a container.
The container left the customs Lisbon, disguised with false documentation, designating the goods as auto parts. At the time they were arrested two persons suspected of having damaged the state in nearly two million.
Second PGDL, the defendants were part of an organization of international scope, that was dedicated, “regularly and concerted, transport and introduction in Portugal, as well as other countries of the European Union, illegal tobacco from third countries, without declaring it to the competent authorities, with extremely high losses for the Portuguese State and for tax revenues”.
According to PGDL, this international group had structures for organization of transport by sea, for goods storage in the country and handling administrative matters manufacturing no corresponding documentation to the reality of cargo, in order to avoid payment of taxes due.
Tobacco transported illegally was always disguised with named “cover goods”, in order to achieve the objectives pursued fraudulent, according to research data.
One of the accused was in pre-trial detention and the other with the obligation of daily performances at the residence police station area. They were prohibited from contacting one another both.
OTHER CASES
20 October: The GNR seized 5,5 million cigarettes, assessed in 1,2 million and were for illegal sale, and arrested a man, in Vendas Novas municipality, District of Évora. This is the third arrest since 27 September in Évora district. The cigarettes were detected in a heavy goods vehicle, which was carrying rolls of toilet paper, during an inspection operation for the control of goods in circulation, conducted by the Fiscal Action Unit GNR.
4 October: the aery goods control movement in A6 (Lisbon-Badajoz) Fiscal Action Unit GNR leads to arrest 2,4 million cigarettes, no value 540 thousand euros, a “tax evasion” of 301 thousand euros. The operation was to be held in A6, the road linking Lisbon to Spain, by the Montemor-o-Novo node, when it was anticipated a freight vehicle with 120 thousand snuff, to March River, without fulfilling the formal legalities and tax.
27 of September: A GNR de Évora, He dismantled a craft factory of illegal tobacco, that worked in the annex of a house in that city, and seized tobacco, cigarettes and manufacturing equipment, worth two thousand euros. The owner of the house, of 37 year old, He was responsible for the business management, where three women tobacco manufacturavam, it was packed in packets made in Évora stationery. each packet, white label, I had a cost between 1,5 and 2 euros.
