As a result of operative-searching and investigative activities, representatives of Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti Division of the Investigation Service of the Ministry of Finance of Georgia through the coordinated activities carried out together with the employees of the General Inspection of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia, detained two persons on the fact of transportation of a particularly large amount of excisable goods subject to marking, without excise marks as a group.

4 000 boxes of non-excised tobacco have been seized as a result of search and seizure.

Investigation is underway under the clause “c” of second part of Article 200 of Criminal Code of Georgia, which envisages imprisonment from 6 to 8 years.