DOF seizes 850 packs of cigarettes

By ETCO

Source: Jornal do Povo, 05/08/2009

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Police officers from the Border Operations Department (DOF), yesterday (04), around 20:30 pm, during a police blockade on the MS – 382 highway, in the Antônio João region (MS), approached a VW Polo vehicle with license plates for inspection. JZP-9685 from Várzea Grande (MT), driven by Luiz Carlos Pereira da Silva, 53, driver, resident at 25th Street, Bairro Marechal Rondon, in the city of Rondonópolis (MT). During inspections inside the vehicle, 850 packages of foreign cigarettes were found. Luiz Carlos assumed ownership of the merchandise and said he acquired it in the city of Pedro Juan Caballero (PY) and that he would take it to the city of Rondonópolis. Given the facts, the merchandise and the vehicle were seized and forwarded to the Federal Revenue Office of Ponta Porã (MS), for appropriate measures.