As a result of operative-searching and investigative activities, representatives of Investigation Service of the Ministry of Finance of Georgia, detained a citizen of Georgia on the fact of storage of excisable goods subject to marking, without excise marks, in particularly large quantities.

Investigation determined that the accused person, with the intent of further sale and to gain illicit material benefit, illegally stored 31 810 boxes of non-excise cigarettes branded „Multi Tabak“, „Multi Class“, and „Armenia“ in a minibus owned by him, located in the city of Tbilisi, with a total market value exceeding GEL 159 000.

Investigation is underway under the third part of the Article 200 of the Criminal Code of Georgia, which as a type of sentence, envisages imprisonment from six to eight years.

Investigation Service continues intensive activities to identify and expose other individuals involved in the above-mentioned crime.