About 50 thousand packs of smuggled cigarettes are seized in Tabaí

By ETCO

Source: Rádio Sepé - Santo Ângelo / RS - NEWS - 21/08/2010

An operation by the Federal Revenue Service, the Highway Command of the Military Brigade and the Federal Highway Police (PRF) resulted in the seizure of 50 packs of smuggled cigarettes at dawn on Saturday. The cargo was located in three Focus vehicles that were approached on the Tabaí-Estrela highway (BR-386), in Tabaí, in the Taquari Valley.

According to the Internal Revenue Service's Counterfeiting and Smuggling Division (DIREP), 17 packs were located in each vehicle. The vehicles, along with the cigarettes, were sent to the Federal Revenue deposits, the three drivers were sent to the Federal Police.