2 smugglers caught with 27,800 cigarettes stuffed in suitcases
Two men were caught in Luxembourg on Wednesday smuggling no less than 27,800 cigarettes in two large suitcases having begun their journey in Moldova.
03.09.2015
Two
men were caught in Luxembourg on Wednesday smuggling no less than
27,800 cigarettes in two large suitcases having begun their journey in
Moldova.
In
fact it was thanks to an operation with the cooperation of Moldovan
authorities and local police tipping off Luxembourg Customs and
Excise and the SCA (Service de contrôle à l'Aéroport), that the
smugglers were caught.
The
two men of Eastern European origin started their journey in Chisinau
travelling to Istanbul and then flying to Luxembourg and therefore
into the European Union, with the two suitcases filled with 1,390
cartons of cigarettes or 27,800 individual cigarettes.
However
the smuggling plot was foiled, the men arrested and the cigarettes
seized by customs before being destroyed.