According to the press service of the General Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the region, employees of the Department for Economic Security and Anti-Corruption (UEBiPK) detained a 45-year-old resident of Engels on suspicion of buying and storing unidentified clothing. products.
According to law enforcement officers, the man bought a batch of cigarettes at a low price through an advertisement on one of the social networks and planned to resell them. To store the merchandise he rented two garages.
During the search, the police seized 145,000 packs of cigarettes worth more than 16 million rubles. As law enforcement officials said, the tobacco products did not have special seals or were counterfeit.
A criminal case has been initiated against the suspect.
