Detectives of the Territorial Department of the Economic Security Bureau in the Lviv region together with the Lviv Customs seized 17,000 packs of disposable electronic cigarettes, cartridges and liquids.
It was established that a citizen of Ukraine tried to import from Poland to Ukraine illegally manufactured electronic cigarettes which do not have excise tax stamps of the established model without declaring and paying the relevant customs fees. The total cost of the product is UAH 6.2 million.
The pre-trial investigation on the grounds of a criminal offense provided for in Part 1 of Art. 204 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (illegal manufacture, storage, sale or transportation for the purpose of sale of excise goods) is carried out by the detectives of the Territorial Department of the ESBU in the Lviv region, the prosecutors of the Lviv Regional Prosecutor's Office conduct the procedural management.