The cashiers were just nearing the end of their shift when they noticed the actions of two men – who were doing business on the street – as money and cigarettes changed hands. The buyer immediately admitted that he had bought 10 packs of cigarettes without a Hungarian seal from the seller’s car.
The 68-year-old “cigarette dealer” was escorted home by the tax inspectors, who denied keeping excise goods at home.
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However, he could not fool the scent of the cigarette-detecting dog of the Deployment Directorate. Maya immediately found the hiding place carved into the walls, from which thousands of packs of illegal cigarettes were found.
The tax inspectors confiscated 2,687 packs of cigarettes without a seal worth nearly six million forints.
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The buyer escaped the inspection with a fine, but the seller must also be held responsible for violating the excise law and committing budget fraud, and they can expect a fine of several million.
Big deployments this year
In February, a Moldovan bus driver crashed with a lot of smuggled cigarettes.
A thousand bottles of dangerous drinks were found in a dilapidated, abandoned house in Borsod in March. NAV financial officers seized more than a thousand bottles of champagne base material in a settlement in Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén county, in an abandoned building.
