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Dismantling of a clandestine tobacco workshop, more than three tons seized

2023-02-23T21:08:28.432Z


A clandestine tobacco workshop was dismantled in Forbach (Moselle), where more than three tonnes of tobacco were seized and a man...


A clandestine tobacco workshop was dismantled in Forbach (Moselle), where more than three tonnes of tobacco were seized and a man was arrested, the regional customs department of Nancy announced on Thursday.

The seizures took place on February 15 during the control of the “

professional premises of an undeclared trade in alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages evading duties and tax

”.

In this business, "

a workshop for the production and packaging of hookah tobacco

" was also discovered, customs said in a statement.

Phenomenon in the European Union

A "

shisha tobacco production complex

" was also uncovered, according to the same source.

According to her, the investigations entrusted to the judicial customs officers subsequently made it possible to discover on the site "

nearly 1.748 tonnes of tobacco (...) and 1.39 tonnes of hookah tobacco

", i.e. a total of more than three tons.

A forty-year-old, unknown to justice and "

socially integrated

", was arrested, it was specified.

The hookah tobacco came mainly "

from smuggled imports from Turkey via Germany and the rest from illegal production carried out there

", according to customs.

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Nearly 350 liters of alcohol, mainly beer, were also seized, it was added, adding that this was the first dismantling of a tobacco factory in eastern France, the fifth in France since the end of 2021.

"

Since the beginning of the 2000s, the European Union has been confronted with the phenomenon of clandestine cigarette manufacturing factories

", factories which "

have gradually established themselves throughout Europe until reaching France

", explain the customs in their press release, stating that the investigations were continuing with regard to the Forbach workshop.

Source: lefigaro

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