The Guardia Civil has arrested two people for making cigarettes with illegal tobacco in a home in Busot (Alicante).
At the home, the agents have found a surprising amount of tobacco and machinery for its manufacture. The illicit products were mainly sent to Poland and Germany. Those detained face charges of smuggling, intellectual property, against public treasury, against public health, falsification of documents and money laundering.
After receiving a report of a possible robbery in a home in an urbanisation in Busot, the agents discovered an open window and inside, a huge amount of packages and machinery intended for the manufacture of cigarettes.
In the subsequent search, the agents found 17 boxes with 202 kilograms of tobacco, 4,368 counterfeit packets of tobacco to be refilled, 3,640 boxes with tubes ready to be refilled with tobacco and 307 grams of marijuana.
In addition, they have seized a machine for sealing tobacco packages and another valued at more than twelve thousand euro, designed to roll, tube and fill with the bite at a speed of up to 12,000 cigarettes per hour.
To carry out the smuggling, they manipulated the product using a counterfeit of a well-known tobacco brand. The resulting product was sent mainly to Poland and Germany.
The Investigative Court No. 2 of San Vicente is the designated body that handles the judicial case.
This intervention carried out by the Main Post of the Guardia Civil in San Juan has allowed the removal of a large number of cigarettes that could have had serious consequences on public health, by not passing the mandatory health controls.
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