Police seize packs of cigarettes in S. Manuel
Author: Lilian Grasiela
Source: Jornal da Cidade - Bauru / SP - 09/12/2009
São Manuel - During the “Tobacco” operation, carried out yesterday morning by the Civil Police of São Manuel (69 kilometers from Bauru), under the supervision of the Brazilian Association to Combat Counterfeiting (ABCF), 1.529 packs of suspected Eight cigarettes were seized contraband.
According to the chief delegate of São Manuel, José Mário Toniato, during the operation, the civil police, accompanied by the ABCF representative, Fernanda de Souza Rego, fulfilled five search warrants and inspected about thirty commercial establishments located in different neighborhoods of the city. City.
The delegate explains that the owners of the places where the cigarette packs suspected of originating in Paraguay were seized, testified to the police and then were released, but will respond to an investigation for the crimes of smuggling and embezzlement.