Detectives of the Territorial Office of the ESBU in the Kyiv region reported suspicion to the organizer of the scheme for the sale of illegally manufactured cigarettes.

The illegal activity was organized by a resident. He arranged the supply of tobacco products without excise tax stamps and their subsequent sale through retail outlets in the city of Pereyaslav.

Detectives of the Bureau conducted searches and seized excise goods with an estimated value of UAH 1.7 million from illegal circulation.

Currently, the organizer of the scheme has been notified of suspicion under Part 1 of Art. 204 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (illegal manufacture, storage, sale, or transportation for sale of excise goods).

He faces punishment in the form of a fine of up to ten thousand tax-free minimum incomes of citizens with confiscation and destruction of illegally manufactured goods.

The pre-trial investigation in criminal proceedings is carried out by detectives of the Territorial Office of the ESBU in the Kyiv region in cooperation with the employees of the strategic investigations department in the Kyiv region of the National Security Service of the National Police. Procedural management - prosecutors of the Kyiv Regional Prosecutor's Office. It will be recalled that the court recently sentenced a resident of the Kyiv region, who was caught by ESBU detectives in the illegal sale of tobacco products.