The lorry driver is now being charged with serious illegal movement of goods subject to excise duty. If the cigarettes had been sold on the black market, the state would have lost almost six million kroner in tobacco tax.
– It is an unusually large matter. The trend is that both smoking and our cigarette seizures have decreased over a longer period of time, but this case shows that cigarette smuggling is still large and profitable, says Erik Friberg, head of the customs crime unit south, in a press release.