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12:50, 29.12.2023

Cigarette smuggling in Romania up to 8.2% of total consumption in 2023

The annual average of cigarette smuggling has increased this year by more than one percentage point, to 8.2% of total consumption, compared to 7.1% in 2022, according to the study by research company Novel.In November…




08:50, 27.12.2023

Contraband cigarettes, smuggled by 3 Bulgarian women, discovered by service dog Ebasa at Henri Coanda Airport

More than 4,000 packs of contraband cigarettes were discovered on Tuesday at the Bucharest Henri Coanda Otopeni International Airport, with the help of the dog Ebasa, the Romanian Border Police informs, in a statement…




10:30, 05.10.2023

UK to work with Belgium, Bulgaria and Serbia to tackle people smuggling

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will agree bilateral initiatives with Belgium, Bulgaria and Serbia on Thursday aimed at tackling organized crime linked to illegal migration, his office said, according to Reuters.…




18:40, 23.08.2023

Austrian IntMin Karner: Cooperation model agreed with Romania to fight migrant smuggling to also be promoted in EU

Austrian IntMin Karner: Cooperation model agreed with Romania to fight migrant smuggling to also be promoted in EUAustrian Interior Minister Gerhard Karner said on Wednesday that the cooperation model agreed with…




13:10, 14.08.2023

Apple lucrează la două documentare despre Lionel Messi

Deja nu mai este un secret că Apple a avut de jucat un rol important în venirea lui Lionel Messi în MLS, liga de fotbal americană. Ba mai mult, de la sosirea acestuia în Statele Unite, vânzările pentru MLS Season…




12:00, 12.06.2023

Bulgarian citizen detained after attempting to smuggle 2.3 million euro worth of cigarettes into Romania

A Bulgarian national was detained for 24 hours after attempting to smuggle around 2.3 million euro worth of contraband cigarettes into Romania via the southern Giurgiu border crossing point in a truck carrying…




18:41, 08.02.2023

Cigarettes and tobacco smuggling still present at Romania's border with Hungary

Cigarette and tobacco smuggling is still present at Romania's border with Hungary, the large quantities discovered, as well as the methods through which it was attempted to introduce and take them in/out of the…




20:15, 06.02.2023

Maramures: Young Ukrainian involved in cigarette smuggling held in custody for 30 days

A young Ukrainian citizen involved in cigarette smuggling, discovered by the road traffic police on national road DN 18, near Mara locality, was held into custody on Monday for 30 days, announced the spokesperson…




10:20, 22.12.2022

Romanian, detained for 2-million-euro worth of cigarette smuggling attempt

A 40-year-old Romanian was detained by the police after he tried to smuggle into Romania approximately 500,000 packs of cigarettes with a total value of over two million euros, using the lid method, hidden behind…




14:10, 03.08.2022

Three Indians, Romanian driver investigated for illegal border crossing, migrant smuggling

Three Indian nationals and one Romanian are being investigated by the Timisoara Border Police for fraudulent crossing of the state border and migrant smuggling after the foreigners were spotted in a car driven…




21:05, 12.07.2022

Drug smugglers who created first cocaine extraction laboratory in Romania placed under preventive arrest

The Bucharest court on Tuesday ordered the preventive arrest for 30 days of five drug traffickers - two Romanians, two Colombians and an Israeli - who set up the first clandestine laboratory in Romania in a cottage…




13:55, 11.07.2022

Two Romanians in custody for migrant smuggling, 8 Indian citizens found in car

Eight Indian citizens, who were trying to illegally cross the border into Romania, from Serbia, helped by two Romanian citizens, were taken into custody for migrant smuggling by The Timisoara Border Police, in…




12:40, 18.05.2022

27 migrants, helped by two smugglers, discovered by border police near Sf. Gheorghe

The border police with the Coast Guard have discovered, around the town of Sf. Gheorghe, 27 migrants coming from Turkey on a watercraft, with the help of two smugglers, and they were retained for 24 hours, the…




14:25, 24.10.2021

Cigarette smuggling up to 8.3 pct in September (Novel Research)

The cigarettes black market increased in Romania by 0.6 percentage points in September compared to July, to 8.3 pct of total consumption, according to data published by Novel Research on Sunday. "In September 2021,…




12:35, 20.09.2021

Satu Mare: 9 Indians hidden in van, discovered at border; driver - accused of migrant smuggling

The border police officers from Satu Mare discovered nine Indian citizens who were trying to exit Romania illegally, hidden in the freight compartment of a van, the driver being investigated for migrant smuggling.…




14:11, 17.08.2021

Cigarette smuggling stopped with gunshots in Satu Mare County; two people detained in Ukraine

Border police officers in Negreti Oas, Satu Mare County, were forced to use weapons to stop several people involved in cigarette smuggling of Ukrainian origin, the spokesperson of the Territorial Inspectorate of…




11:35, 16.08.2021

Botosani Border Police: 7,500 packs of cigarettes - seized, smugglers flee to Ukraine

Border police officers in Botosani seized 7,500 packs of cigarettes following an operation on the range of Oroftiana locality, on the border with Ukraine, spokesperson for the Territorial Border Police Service…




13:15, 21.05.2021

Neamt County: Nearly 500 packs of smuggled cigarettes seized following searches

Almost 500 packs of contraband cigarettes were confiscated following searches carried out on Friday by police officers in the northern city of Roman - Neamt County. The spokesperson of Neamt County Police Inspectorate…




09:10, 13.04.2021

Border police use gun to catch cigarette smugglers at Romania's border with Moldova

Local border police in Botosani used guns on a mission to catch cigarette smugglers at Santa Mare, at Romania's border with Moldova, the spokesperson for the Botosani Border Police (STPF) reported on Tuesday. Border…




10:45, 26.11.2020

Twenty-eight police raids in Suceava in cigarette smuggling case, seven police officers allegedly implicated

Police are conducting today, under the coordination of the Department for Investigation of Organised Crime and Terror (DIICOT) 28 raids in Suceava County at addresses of individual suspected of smuggling cigarettes,…




14:09, 14.07.2020

Cigarettes smuggling in Romania falls below 14 pct in 2019

The black market of cigarettes in Romania decreased last year for the first time in six years, below 14 pct, which meant higher budgetary revenues from the taxation of cigarettes, but the damage to the state budget…




12:58, 21.04.2020

Survey finds one in three Romanians would buy smuggled products

One in three Romanians declares that they would buy smuggled products, found an IRES survey commissioned by the anti-illicit trade association ACTIV on the occasion of the National Day of Fight against Illicit…




13:32, 17.02.2020

More than 20,000 smuggled cigarette packs discovered in Chisinau-Bucharest train

Over 20,000 smuggled cigarette packs were discovered, on Sunday evening, in the wagons of a train running on the Chisinau - Iasi - Bucharest route, the spokesman of the Territorial Inspectorate of the Iasi Border…




16:28, 13.02.2020

Andrew Noble: Collaboration between British authorities and Romanian Police in human smuggling exceptional

The collaboration between the British authorities and the Romanian Police in solving human smuggling cases is exception, Andrew Noble, the British Ambassador in Bucharest, said in a press release sent to AGERPRES…




15:08, 29.01.2020

IGPF: Goods worth 800,000 RON to be smuggled in the country, found at customs in past 24 hours

Counterfeit goods or which exceeded the customs cap, worth in total 800,000 RON, and which were going to be smuggled in the country, were discovered by Romanian border police officers in the past 24 hours. According…




13:54, 17.01.2020

Romanian authorities seize smuggled cigarettes worth approx 15 million euros in 2019

Over 150 million smuggled cigarettes, worth 71 million lei (Rs 15 million euros), were seized by the Romanian authorities in 2019, the equivalent of a 40 pct increase compared to the previous year, shows data centralized…




14:44, 02.01.2020

Romanian Police confiscates 48 tonnes of bulk tobacco and 55 million smuggled cigarettes in 2019

In the first eleven months of 2019, the policemen confiscated over 55,700,000 cigarettes and 48,614 kg of bulk tobacco (the equivalent of 69,448,572 cigarettes), following the actions conducted nationwide to prevent…




14:27, 17.09.2019

FinMin Teodorovici: I will show zero tolerance in everything that has to do with tax evasion

Minister of Public Finance Eugen Teodorovici has stated in Giurgiu on Tuesday, on the occasion of the launch of the national campaign against smuggling, that he will show zero tolerance in everything that has to…




13:37, 22.11.2018

Three Polish, caught smuggling cigarettes worth over 900,000 lei, detained by PTF Siret

Three Polish citizens have been detained at the Border Crossing Point (PTF) Siret (northern Romania), after trying to smuggle cigarettes worth more than 900,000 lei, a press release issued by the ITPF Press Office…




19:58, 13.06.2018

Police seize 400,000 smuggled cigarettes in Sibiu, Maramures raids

Police seized on Wednesday 400,000 smuggled cigarettes following nine search actions conducted in the counties of Sibiu and Maramures; one suspect was taken into custody and another three are being heard, a release…