Contraband cigarettes -

MEIGNEUX ROMUALD / SIPA

This is the second case of contraband cigarettes, coming from Eastern countries, in a few days for the Jirs (specialized interregional jurisdiction) of Bordeaux.

A vast network was dismantled in France and twelve people arrested after months of investigation, announced on Tuesday the Jirs of Bordeaux and the national gendarmerie

During this survey carried out in the Paris region, Brive, Angers, Nancy and Lyon, the volume "of contraband and counterfeit cigarettes sold in France by members of this network is estimated at more than 25.5 tonnes for a value on the internal market of more than 8.5 million euros ”.

Six people indicted

An operation launched on April 6 allowed "the dismantling of this organized gang and the seizure of 1,780 cartons of contraband cigarettes, 34,616 euros and two vehicles worth 94,000 euros," said the press release.

In addition, “more than 15,000 other cartridges counterfeiting the Marlboro brand with a domestic value of more than 1.5 million euros and more than 1.3 million duties and taxes evaded, were seized. in a warehouse in the Paris region ”.

Six people were indicted on charges including criminal associations, importation and possession in smuggling and organized gang of manufactured tobacco products.

Five were the subject of warrants of committal and another was placed under judicial supervision, according to the same source.

A case that started with the seizure of 2.5 tonnes of parcels in Poitiers

The case began following the seizure of cigarette packages by the Poitiers Regional Customs Department: a total of 2.5 tonnes of packages were delivered between December 2018 and August 2019 to members of the Armenian community. in connection with members of the Ukrainian community.

On April 27, 2020, a judicial information was opened to the Jirs of Bordeaux which had entrusted the investigations to the financial judicial investigation services, in connection with the gendarmerie services of Limoges and Corrèze.

In the other case coordinated by the Jirs de Bordeaux, the Pays de Loire gendarmerie announced Monday four indictments after the dismantling of a network of traffickers suspected of having imported 75 tonnes of contraband cigarettes which they distributed to “local wholesalers”.

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  • Limousin

  • Limoges

  • Brive

  • Aquitaine

  • Smuggling

  • Bordeaux

  • Gendarmerie

  • Cigarette

  • Society

  • Investigation