As a result of operative-searching and investigative activities, representatives 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, in Samegrelo region.

Investigation determined, that the accused person, in order to receive illegal material benefits, in one of the residential houses located in Zugdidi municipality, was storing particularly large amount of non-excised cigarettes for further sale.

As a result of investigative activities 8 470 boxes of non-excised tobacco worth total of GEL 38 115 were seized.

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