The police seized half a ton of tobacco and over 2000 pieces of electronic cigarettes

The police seized half a ton of tobacco and over 2000 pieces of electronic cigarettes / Photo: Customs Administration

In a joint action of inspectors from the Department of Control and Investigations of the Customs Administration with the Department of the Crime Police - Department of Economic Crime and Corruption of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and inspectors from the Public Revenue Administration and the Market Inspection, almost half a ton of hookah tobacco, electronic cigarettes were seized and e-cigarette liquid.

-Yesterday, in several locations in Skopje, as part of the coordinated action, a control was carried out in which unmarked excise products without excise stamps were discovered and seized, of which 454 kilograms of hookah tobacco, 2.290 pieces of electronic cigarettes with a content of 15.130 milliliters of liquid for electronic cigarettes , the Customs Administration informed today.

With this seizure, an attempt to release excise goods into free circulation was prevented, for which the payment of duties of a total of 2,5 million denars was avoided.

- The confiscated goods will be handed over to the Agency for the Management of Confiscated Property in accordance with the legal regulations, and appropriate reports have been submitted to the competent institutions against the involved legal and natural persons, according to the Customs Administration

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