Customs seized 806,400 cigarettes
Cigarette hideout in Bitumenwellplatten

This morning around 04:30 clock customs officers checked the mobile control Guben on the highway 15, a German descent forestry trucks in the control of the vehicle they were 806,400 units and unpaid untaxed cheap cigarettes of brands "L & M" and "Marlboro" fixed.

The cargo papers were exclusively from Bitumenwellplatten. The customs officers inspected a total of six pallets and found a cavity where the cigarettes were hidden. Immediately controlled the officers also discovered other pallets and the remaining cheap cigarettes.

The German driver (5 was provisionally arrested. The customs officials launched against him a tax and criminal seized the cigarettes and the truck customs investigators took place even before the investigation.
The investigation is ongoing and will Zollfahndungsamt by the Berlin-Brandenburg, the Forest Service headquarters, directed. The accused will judge the prison.
Background information:

Since the beginning of 2007 were approximately 49 million cigarettes in the local jurisdiction of the Customs Office seized the Berlin-Brandenburg (comparison period last year: about 37.5 million).
Alone in June 2007 were 22 million untaxed / unpaid cigarettes seized.
The biggest apprehended are concentrated in the 24-25. Week:

     * 12 June 2007: 2.4 million pieces of "Marlboro", Frankfurt (Oder), Beiladung furniture,
     * 13 June 2007: 3.8 million pieces "Camel", Frankfurt (Oder), no Beiladung,
     * 14 June 2007: 1.2 million pieces "Marlboro Lights", forestry, Tarnladung small cages,
     * 18 June 2007: 0.5 million pieces of "Marlboro, forestry, Tarnladung dog fodder,
     * 19 June 2007: 5.8 million pieces "Dunhill", Frankfurt (Oder), no Beiladung.


Tobacco sniffer dog "Tabor" with the correct nose

Ulmer Customs prevented smuggling of nearly 10,000 pieces of cigarettes

Nearly 10,000 pieces untaxed cigarettes, the tobacco sniffer dog "Tabor" at the Mobile control Ulm last Sunday in the control of a coming from Poland coach found.
Customs dog Tabor.

With 60 people occupied coach laid on his way from Poland to Meersburg on Lake Constance, an intermediate stop at the bus station in Ulm, where he is aware of the customs officials has been checked. The question of mitgebrachten goods such as alcohol and cigarettes denied both 32 - and 35-year-old bus driver initially.
Only when the set six-year-Malinois dog "Tabor" by vigorous scratching in the field of storage pockets behind the galley the presence of cigarettes displayed, the men finally gave the smuggling.

Overall, more than 40 sticks of cigarettes to light, the two professional drivers under the sink board were installed. According to initial findings were the cigarettes for Polish workers in the western Lake space.
Against the driver opened the customs criminal suspicion of tax evasion On. The cheap cigarettes were secured.

"Tabor is currently one of two customs dogs to be used for the control of Ulm in vans and trucks travel controls are used. Overall, the main customs office in Ulm over ten trained customs dogs.

The main customs office in Ulm, with its 600 employees one of the six main customs offices in Baden-Wuerttemberg. The jurisdiction extends over about 7,000 square kilometers from Crailsheim to Lake.
In addition to the safeguarding and management of tax revenues in the areas of customs and excise of over 500 million euros a year is the main customs office in Ulm with his ten customs offices, the four sites to combat moonlighting, the two mobile control groups as well as the customs commissioner at the border to Switzerland in the Area presence.