Border guards seized 351,000 packets of undeclared cigarettes found in a container with ceramic tiles, worth 9 million lei.
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The Coast Guards, together with customs inspectors and BCCO officers, made a major seizure, confiscating 351,000 packets of undeclared cigarettes, equivalent to 7 million cigarettes. They were discovered in a container arriving from a non-EU country, which contained ceramic tiles, but the documents presented were false. The authorities launched investigations to establish the circumstances of the offenses of using false documents and smuggling.
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