BEB confiscated equipment from a tobacco factory linked to Alperin

Detectives seized a tobacco production line that was illegally producing cigarettes.

Investigators from the Bureau of Economic Security of Ukraine conducted searches and seized equipment at the production and warehouses of an enterprise that has a license for the official production of tobacco products and is at the same time associated with smuggler Vadim Alperin.

The BEB noted that they seized a line for the production of tobacco products, on which cigarettes were produced illegally.

“EBB detectives established that the licensee company, together with controlled companies, illegally produces and sells cigarettes with counterfeit excise tax stamps,” the Bureau justified its actions.

Pre-trial investigation in criminal proceedings under Part 3 of Art. 212 (tax evasion), part 1 of Art. 366 (introduction of knowingly false information into official documents), Part 1 of Art. 199 (falsification of excise tax stamps, Part 2 of Article 204 (illegal manufacture and storage of excisable goods) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine is carried out by detectives of the Main Detective Division of the Bureau of Economic Security of Ukraine. Procedural management is carried out by prosecutors of the Office of the Prosecutor General.