As a result of operative-searching and investigative activities, representatives of Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti Division of Investigation Department of Investigation Service of the Ministry of Finance of Georgia through the coordinated activities carried out together with the police department of autonomous republic of Abkhazia of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia, detained one person on the fact of storage of a particularly large amount of excisable goods subject to marking without excise marks.

As a result of search and seizure of the accused person’s house, 3 990 boxes of different types of non-excised tobacco worth of GEL 16 359 have been seized.

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