Almost 2.6 million euros’ worth of cigarettes confiscated by customs officers

The customs officers in Constanta (south-east of Bucharest) discovered and confiscated 890 cartons of Marlboro cigarettes (8.5 million cigarettes) that were worth about 2.6 million euros, reads a release of the National Customs Authority.
Taking action on the basis of the risk analysis, the customs officers working with the Customs Office in Constanta checked a number of containers that came from China and were bound to reach Romania as their final destination. They chose a container that, according to the shipment documents, contained 883 parcels with 15,000 kg of footwear, bound for a trading company at Alunis, Mures County (north-west of Bucharest).
But behind a “cover” made up of a few parcels of footwear, there were 425,000 packets of Marlboro cigarettes. The market value of this quantity of cigarettes is about 2.6 million euros.