Friday 6 May 2011

Guardia Civil seize 40,939 cigarette packets in April and 12,000 last Wednesday alone

LA LINEA (Agencies) Guardia Civil and Aduana agents caught a total of 40,939 packets of cigarettes and 899 packets of rolling tobacco in the area, over the month of April. None of the seized tobacco had the proper tax stickers indicating that it had paid excise tax in Spain. There were some 394 people denounced for contraband or contributing to contraband (i.e. selling), and 149 vehicles confiscated under the same law. In a more recent major move against smuggling in the Campo de Gibraltar, the Guardia Civil seized 11,940 packets of cigarettes and 2,797 packets of roll-up tobacco in three separate operations last Wednesday in San Roque.

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