Detectives of the Territorial Department of the ESBU in the Volyn region exposed persons who kept counterfeit tobacco products.

Bureau employees conducted a series of searches in two district centers in Volyn. About 27,500 packs of cigarettes without excise tax stamps were seized from illegal circulation.

The estimated value of counterfeit tobacco products is more than UAH 2.2 million.

Currently primary investigative actions are being carried out and the issue of seizure of seized goods and material values is being resolved.

All the circumstances of the commission of a criminal offense are established in order to further bring the guilty parties to justice.

The pre-trial investigation under Art. Art. 199, 204 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine continues. Operational support was carried out by employees of the Department of Detectives for Strategic Economic Protection, employees of the SSU in Volyn region and the USR in the DSR region of the National Police of Ukraine. Procedural management is carried out by prosecutors of the Volyn Regional Prosecutor's Office.