Cigarette Seizures up on Crackdown
Budapest, August 18 (MTI) – Hungarian customs officials seized more than 70 million illegal cigarettes in the first half of this year, about the same number as in all of last year, daily Magyar Nemzet said today.
In addition to the cigarettes, 2.5 million tonnes of loose leaf tobacco was also seized, according to the National Tax and Customs Authority (NAV).
A spokesman for the authority told the paper that NAV was cracking down on illegal tobacco sales this year. Checks have been stepped up in communities that do not have a National Tobacco Store, said Attila Suller.
Hungary introduced a state monopoly on retail tobacco sales a little more than a year ago.
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Source: http://mtva.hu/hu/hungary-matters
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