745 packs of cigarettes seized at Castello

By ETCO

Source: Cruzeiro do Sul Online - Sorocaba / SP - 26/05/2010

A cargo containing 745 thousand packs of cigarettes was seized in the early hours of Wednesday (26) at Km 111 of the Castello Branco Highway. Police officers were conducting inspections near the Boituva toll plaza when, at around 3:50 am, they approached the Ford cargo truck NIJ plate from Terezina-PI. The driver would have presented an invoice that did not match the product. The truck was loaded with cardboard boxes containing 745 cigarette boxes, totaling 745 thousand packs. The driver even offered R $ 30 to the police to release him. He was caught in the act for smuggling and active corruption. The incident was referred to the Sorocaba Federal Police.