The gendarmerie seized 8,000 illegal packages -
CHAMUSSY / SIPA
Their investigation was a hit.
No less than 8,000 packets of contraband cigarettes were seized by the Loire-Atlantique gendarmerie, she announces.
The gendarmes were acting as part of a procedure targeting drug trafficking when they discovered, on December 8, 509 packets of cigarettes at the home of one of the suspects, in the Pont-Château sector, in the north-west. of the department.
After investigations, the research brigade and the surveillance and intervention platoon of the gendarmerie (PSIG) of Saint-Nazaire proceeded the next day to searches on the place of marketing.
Investigators then seized 7,500 packages of contraband cigarettes.
That is a total of around 8,000 illegal packages.
Contraband cigarettes seized by the gendarmerie.
- Gendarmerie of Loire-Atlantique
This parallel market was achieved through the use of social networks, specifies the gendarmerie.
The three people (19, 20 and 21) involved in this trafficking are young: 19, 20 and 21.
They will be the subject of proceedings before the Criminal Court of Saint-Nazaire and notably incur a heavy customs fine.
The merchandise will be destroyed.
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