Customs leads successful blow against international cigarette smuggling.

Numerous arrests and searches in Munich and various places in Saxony-Anhalt.

The Munich-Zollfahndungsamt Dienstsitz willow-established under the auspices of the Prosecutor Court since about nine months ago against a grouping German, Swedish and Vietnamese nationals.

The suspect is the formation of a criminal organization for commercial or smuggling of commercial Steuerhehlerei with untaxed cigarettes and unpaid accused.
They are suspected of at least approximately 7,100,000 units from illegal cigarette factories in the Czech Republic on Bavarian / Czech border crossings eingeschmuggelt and in the federal territory to have stopped. The tax loss is around one million euros.

On 28 November 2007 enforced forces of the duty time immediately received seven arrest warrants against members of the grouping in Munich and in several places in Saxony-Anhalt. Furthermore, the officers searched the homes of those arrested and another suspect.

In the context of the search was extensive evidence, including additional 60,000 pieces untaxed cheap cigarettes, is ensured.

Moreover, when the offenders assets like a brand new vehicle, the Mercedes B-Class and cash worth about 28,000 euros will be secured.

Overall, the deployment of some 140 officials from the customs offices in Munich and Hanover and the main customs office at Regensburg's mobile self control and two prosecutors involved in the prosecutor's office courtyard.

The investigations are continuing.

Further information will be used exclusively by the Court prosecutor issued.

Customs use against large-scale illegal cigarette trade in Berlin.

Around 120 officers in use - dealers and buyers in sight.

On 27 November 2007 have around 120 customs officials and customs officials from mobile control groups from Berlin and Brandenburg in the context of a major operation in the Berlin city area to combat illegal cheap cigarette trade.

During the operation, which began in the morning and ended late afternoon, there were about 100 "sale seats" in Berlin observed. The Customs has distributors and suppliers are identified and arrested. Against them and many buyers have the officers in criminal proceedings and fines and warnings issued. Both retailers and suppliers as well as the buyers were untaxed cigarettes were seized.

As part of the operation, in which eight sniffer dogs were involved, among other things, it came to 30 arrests of dealers and suppliers. Buyers of them offered untaxed cigarettes were also punished. More than 30,000 cigarettes in the context of the deployment had been seized. In addition, funds from the sale proceeds have been seized.
Keyword street trading.

In Berlin, is the illegal street trade of cigarettes a surface problem. The tariff is at least 250 to 300 sales centers in the city area, where dealers regularly untaxed cigarettes, not infrequently, counterfeiting, selling.

Both the sale and purchase of tax offenses, and - depending on the seriousness of the offense - with fines or imprisonment threatened. The untaxed cigarettes in any case be seized and later destroyed. Even for buyers thus potentially vulnerable to punishment even the damage.

The purchase of untaxed cigarettes is not a peccadillo! Regardless of the penalties - even for the buyers - it should be noted that by the illegal street trade in cigarettes is financed organized crime. Because the wire-pullers are often associated with organized crime and also responsible for other crimes.

The Customs also fighting the smuggling of and trafficking in untaxed cigarettes. Mobile inspection teams are divided in the federal area. Moreover, the customs service determined in the context of serious and organized crime.

Smuggling cigarettes, cars. Customs seized around 27,000 untaxed cigarettes. Officials of the mobile control of Hauptzollamt Berlin led during the night of 31 August 2008 routine checks on the southern part of Highway 10 by.

Here they first moved against 00:15 clock a Lithuanian vans with trailers from the car traffic into the parking lot Uckleysee.
In the subsequent control of the vehicle discovered Zöllner around 10,800 untaxed cigarettes with Lithuanian Steuerbanderole.
Against the 34-year-old Lithuanian driver was a tax criminal proceeding. Moreover, he had expected for this procedure a security.

03:00 clock voted against the customs officials again called for a Lafettenfahrzeug control. The review of the vehicle on the Autohof promoted Niederlehme total 16,000 untaxed cheap cigarettes with Russian tax stamps for days.
The 33-year-old Lithuanian driver still paid on the spot due to charges and also a guarantee to the criminal proceedings initiated tax, a total of 2,500 euros.

The of those cigarettes were seized in both cases. The evaded taxes amount to around 4,650 euros.
Chemnitzer Zöllner find 40,000 smuggled cigarettes

X-ray image of a suitcase stuffed cigarettes poles On 01 September 2008 moved control of the Mobile Zöllner Chemnitz 03:00 clock against a Polish coach on highway 4 at Chemnitz-Glösa from moving traffic and controlled them. The bus was on the way to the Rhineland-Palatinate.

When the X-ray inspection of the luggage arrived at the customs officers on suspicion of that in four travel bags with a larger number of cheap cigarette sticks located. In the subsequent control of Duffels confirmed this suspicion.

Overall, the customs officers seized 40,000 smuggled cigarettes (200 bars). A tax loss of around 5,300 euros and could be prevented.

Two Polish nationals aged between 43 and 21 years admitted that cigarettes into Germany eingeschmuggelt to have. Both a tax criminal proceeding. After they were able to control their travel fortse

Smuggling cigarettes into garage deposited

A 36-year old man from Birstein in the Main-Kinzig-Kreis, in his garage more than 155,000 untaxed cigarettes stored. This, he wanted to gain in bringing the man.

Customs investigators now made him a dash through the bill. With a search order of court in the pocket surprised the officers of the Customs Office, Frankfurt am Main, from Kazakhstan-born German in the past week and searched his house and property. In the garage, the investigators found:
776 sticks of cigarette brand "Jin Ling", two poles of the brand "L & M and five packets of the mark" Marlboro "were discovered and secured.

The geständige Zigarettenhehler has indicated that it has the cigarettes at a rest stop on the highway 5 near Darmstadt by a man who received it in July in Croatia had met holidays. For the supposed business he paid 13,000 Euro to the "holiday acquaintance."

The defendants now expects a penalty in addition to a tax amounting to some 27,000 euros.