As a result of operative-searching and investigative activities, representatives of Investigation Service of the Ministry of Finance of Georgia, within the framework of the Container Control Program, through the coordinated activities carried out together with the representatives of the Customs Department of the Revenue Service and other agencies participating in the program, detained one Ukrainian citizen on the fact of transportation of particularly large amount of excisable goods subject to marking, without excise marks.

Investigation determined, that the person exposed in crime, through the customs checkpoint Sadakhlo, using a specially arranged hideout in the trunk of the vehicle under his control, imported to Georgia especially large amount of non-excised HEETS tobacco products for IQOS.

Investigation is underway under the third part of Article 200 of Criminal Code of Georgia, which envisages imprisonment from 6 to 8 years.