2 special operations against cigarette smuggling carried out by customs officers in past 12 hours

Customs officers carried out two special operations against cigarette smuggling over the past 12 hours, the press office of the National Customs Agency announced.
The first operation started at 9:30 p.m. on Sunday in the region of Dragoman. Officers with the Customs Intelligence and Investigation Department with the Customs Sofia detected and foiled the smuggling of some 1,978 boxes of cigarettes with Serbian and Kosovar excise stamps, as well as 190 boxes of cigarettes without excise stamp. The cigarettes were fund in the service carriage of a train transporting officers with the Bulgarian State Railways working at the Dimitrovgrad railway station in Serbia.
A total of 2,168 boxes of cigarettes were found carried by railway workers, in the empty carriages of the train, as well as outside the train – cigarettes thrown away by the railway workers.
The second operation started at 9:30 a.m. on Monday, carried out by the Customs Intelligence and Investigation Department with the Customs Sofia, in cooperation with Economic Police with the general Directorate of Criminal Police.
Authorities checked a site, used as a depot for illegal cigarette distribution. The cigarettes were without excise stamp. Authorities seized 10,820 boxes of cigarettes without excise stamps. Other 750 boxes if cigarettes were found in a car used by the two persons put under surveillance during the investigation. According to initial information, authorities have busted a well-organised scheme for illegal cigarette distribution.