that and three times cheaper than the real one. to better understand the problem and try to figure out how the illegal tobacco market works. we went to the kaliningrad region. our program has visited this region more than once and has already filmed similar tobacco investigations. open the door smugglers hide cigarettes. yes, your accent was really different, we were interested in the ways in which russian cigarettes got to the countries of europe

the central market of the city of kaliningrad here sells tobacco, and now we are fake let's go to the central part of this market on the right side here, as usual, clothes, shoes, how business is going normally. around this stall there are always a lot of people from buyers, lights out. no, the shop is called a snuffbox at first glance. this is a real paradise for a smoker of a pack of cigarettes, all multi-colored in cellophane, the price of many brands is less than 50 rubles. for example, a yellow gin-ling with

an image of a ram with horns, the pack is very similar to popular american cigarettes; locals call them kaliningrad aries here 48 cigarettes, 48 ​​cigarettes. there are no counterfeit cigarettes. in general, there are no shops anywhere, except for a tent, we call the police and go to get acquainted with the seller. and you're just a salesperson. yes, what is your name? and he couldn't really explain anything. tell us where you get cigarettes 48 rubles. here, what are these cigarettes? in kaliningrad, we see such cigarettes for the

first time, what kind of company is this? please tell me you i you sell absolutely counterfeit cigarettes, and they still sell at retail. let the cigarettes. sit down. here are the probes that is, one piece at a time. yes, you are trading, the seller failed to explain the story, the prices on a pack of cigarettes are low, less than the cost of excise tax, and we have almost no doubts that counterfeit goods are being sold in this trade pavilion. 48 rub. the sixth cigarette is absolutely singed left, uh, tobacco products that cannot possibly be in the fund, even according to the pricing policy, that is, clearly fake excise wombs. this is a well-known brand under which exactly the same all sorts of cigarettes are faked, principles that do not exist exactly

the same hanging roi cigarettes, which are also absolutely incomprehensible. what is it uh-huh then, there is obviously a contract, right? well, of course, dakota 55 rubles. according to the seller, there were no documents in the tent. all the papers are kept by the director, who is about to drive up, and we continue to study the curiosities of the brand of cigarettes. sasha, you know that you are addressing the operator with cigarettes. no, no, i say, i see such cigarettes for the first time. here people with a variety even approach the choice of what they will simply glue on paper and blue excise an absolutely economic crime, and the forgery of excise stamps, it is equated separately to a large coinage. you know, yes, that this is a criminal liability. this is not cigarettes, the state bears the losses. from such bad cigarettes, in short, billions of rubles,

of course, firstly, this is a direct theft on taxes. secondly, this is an absolute bullying of ordinary uh people who can not afford any cigarettes, except for these cheap plastic tobacco-free cigarettes. as such. well, and accordingly, we came there was a queue. all the time while we were exploring, the seller was silent about the range of snuffboxes, and then a man appeared on the threshold, who immediately rushed to attack our film crew. leave the room. who are you, senior corpse? maxim then petrov behaved very aggressively and tried to drive us out of the pavilion. but we understood that as soon as we went out into the street, the owners would try to

hide the counterfeit goods, destroy the cash register tape, or simply close the store, and then run away. well, you wait outside. come on, won't you let us indicate. come on, you've got me indoors, you're already indoors. we called along. wait. no, we'll wait here because we're at a crime scene. while there was a verbal skirmish, the police arrived. officers of the local department immediately began to inspect the goods and documentation. and then another temperamental man appeared in the trading room. apparently, the owner of the outlet, you

normally talk to people, do you live in the 21st century? here people are generally decent journalists. and people, what who is this? you filming here i'm alexey here is your name alexey please why should i leave my place of work ? meanwhile, law enforcement officers slowly continued to inspect the scene, drew up a protocol, interviewed sellers and seized samples of goods, in order to understand the fate of the snuffbox, the next day we met with representatives of the police of the leningradsky district of kaliningrad, on whose territory the market is located. partially examined, uh, this product was installed in cigarettes, which were

absent necessarily at the moment time marking qr code. and this product was seized at present, an investigation is being carried out on this fact. e, in order to establish the legitimacy of finding these products in circulation, a social decision will be raised. yes , counterfeit cigarettes came from, who uncontrollably supply poison from abroad, it seems that it is impossible for a private car to drive through the border crossing while multi- ton trucks are prohibited due to the pandemic. they carefully inspect legal production in the region. through the efforts of the ministry of internal affairs , we defeated with these questions we turned to local main. over the past few years, we have

suspended the activities of four enterprises that produced unlabeled tobacco products. these enterprises were, uh, legal, but additionally they produced exactly unlabeled products, which were later intended for the supply of eu countries. the last serious special operation to seize a large batch tobacco products of unknown origin was held in the kaliningrad region in february, and it all started with the fact that the operatives decided to check auto repair shop for trucks, which was located on the outskirts of the village of fish, which is in the guryev district. however, in the repair area in a large metal hangar, there were no tools for repairing cars; the whole room was filled with pallets of a variety of cigarettes. mostly

the production of the republic of belarus and the middle east. we decided to see what the smugglers' transshipment point is like and went to the fishery, where we are. and what is this realm of cigarettes. it's really the realm of cigarette cigarettes. here more than 100 million rubles. and the total number exceeds 2 million, packs of products came, both from the territory of the republic of belarus and from the territory of the near abroad of the former soviet republics, the products of e are not labeled and are, accordingly, in illegal circulation. well, all these products were supplied with all this muck. i understand the territory of the kaliningrad region. and maybe even somewhere abroad. she was leaving. yes, these cigarettes went somewhere, these products came, indeed, like the countries of the european union so, uh, it diverged on the territory of the kaliningrad region. uh, you can pay attention in this warehouse is, let's say, the so

-called cover goods. well, that is, the truck was loaded. yes, with these boxes, yes, and at the very end of this wagon, yes, at the end, these clothes were thrown, yes, second-hand second-hand. e, which in fact was simply a cover product, that is, they did not always get to the bottom of the truth, and the customs authorities, due to the complexity of customs procedures. it didn't always work out. local police claim that the owners of this good have already been traced, their detention is a matter of the near future, and then it will be possible to specifically say how and from where such a large batch of illegal cigarettes came to the region. and what tricks do smugglers use during the pandemic to deliver illegal cargo to the kaliningrad region? we drive up to the

border town, bagrationovsk, once there was a brisk work smugglers stuffed cigarettes into the hiding places of their cars and tried to cross the border. vanya, you are a smuggler, no. who are you? i'm not talking about choi earn a living hid cigarettes yet. your car your car. in the village of chernyshevskoye, a lot of trucks

draw up documents, and customs officers carefully examine the cargo. do you search every car or do you have some kind of restrictions. hmm well no, of course, every car is not searched. uh, at the moment, the principle of selective customs control is used, uh, and uh, a risk management system is used, based on this, in the presence of certain criteria, a decision is made on conducting customs inspections. first of all, he draws attention to those trucks and vans, in which there are a lot of items of goods. in this case, it is much easier for smugglers to disguise illegal cargo and cigarettes are no exception. taking into account the recent events of restrictions due to the spread of coronavirus infection, the level of offenses related to the movement of

tobacco products has significantly decreased in 2020. uh, about 9,000 packs were seized in the amount of 780,000 rubles. a-a cases were considered, uh, seven thousand, and there were packs confiscated for 650,000 rubles. at the checkpoint in the village of chernyshevskoye, customs officers work day and night, along with officers, specially trained dogs serve. they are all breeds of raspberries. this is a belgian shepherd, according to cynologists, malinois have a great sense of smell. they are well adapted to the service. a mobile inspection complex with kontrolnik operates at a nearby site. this is a truck with a powerful

x-ray machine, which is in a retractable crane, the operators inside the car on the monitors. they see a picture of the cargo to hide nothing will succeed. this is probably why truck drivers called this complex an aquarium. here customs officers check another truck. what do you see inside this truck and what is the cargo of sprats in cans declared according to the documents? yes, and we see, these are the pallets, but under this 28 years. you see, everything is clearly visible. as you understand that these are sprats, they are something else. well, it's the experience of working here that they can't put into words . do you have any places usually become more frequent there to hide cigarettes cigarettes, but in

car, please, here we have a driver like. this area here, especially the back area near the wheel. this is called the bottom of the vehicle, in this case a cargo trailer. you see, these are usually these areas. we like to bookmark tobacco products, complexes with electronic devices or aquariums work at checkpoints in various parts of our country and help to find hidden illegal cargo. here is one of the latest examples in the leningrad region. attackers tried to smuggle a large consignment to the baltics cigarettes under the guise of a cutting board. in fact, we

see, we see two identical boards in weight absolutely, coinciding with the original, which the smugglers came up with, expecting that it was possible for the organs to not work on new year's holidays on january 4, they made an attempt to export a truck with boards to estonia i officially declare that the forest material weighing 19 tons. there were about 7,000 of these cigarette boards on the seven flights. well , we see that even here, one hook

fell out. see here we also see cigarettes fts operatives found out that the boards with hiding places were made in bryansk and the craftsmen also found them. but the carpenter could not bring any charges against him. i just completed the order, not suspecting how these boards would be used. in april 2021, during a joint operation, operatives from the ministry of internal affairs and the fsb seized 160 tons of cigarettes without

excise stamps. all of them are made in the countries of the middle east, the operatives simultaneously detained in the altai territory, novosibirsk and samara regions, the trucks were stuffed with counterfeit cigarettes. at the same time, overheads are usually started food is the astrakhan region. i'm just carrying tomato paste. yes, now the city, astrakhan, tomato paste. the total weight of the nineteenth 800 kg was supposed to bring to the city of moscow what do we see here here? come , please, according to preliminary data, the flow of cigarette smuggling entered russia through the checkpoints of the astrakhan customs, which means that the investigators will obviously have questions for the head of the department, major general eldar said, who was arrested a month ago. the truth is different

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only smuggled, but counterfeit cigarettes. so several underground factories were liquidated. in one of the warehouses in the suburbs in the suburbs, a vehicle was found carrying cigarettes without excise stamps, in the future, the lady was installed the route of this vehicle, which came to the moscow region, a from the rostov region. we were able to identify the production where these cigarettes were produced. it was marlboro, it was the old bt and tu-154 cigarettes on this slide. e was found to be producing approximately 700,000 packs of cigarettes from two high-tech

chinese-made lines that could produce 200 packs per minute. the fighters against economic crimes of the ministry of internal affairs have something to boast of. among the most significant special events, the defeat of an illegal cigarette factory in the ryazan region, specialists in the production process are not only laborers, but it is indeed who was involved in setting up the start-up of this and production technology. that is, it was a full-fledged production. the products were located in the ryazan region , the finished products were moved to a transit warehouse owned by the group members from this

warehouse further in transit, what else do they cost the moscow region. we figured out that illegal cigarettes can be smuggled or counterfeited the first smart people try to smuggle them across the representative of the federal customs service is called upon to fight the border with this phenomenon. according to the police , such workshops are quite often covered by the security forces in clandestine factories, so, why are there so many on the shelves of our stores without excise products? especially a lot of non -labeled products are sold in million-plus cities, and moscow, in this sense,

the capital, is cheap fakes. here you can stock up not only in the store, illegal online trade also flourishes. together with the public, we conduct a journalistic experiment, we find on the internet a company that offers the so-called bulgarian cigarettes, rhodopi, tu-134 and stewardess. these brands are remembered, the smokers of the soviet times appreciated bulgarian tobacco for its good quality and cheapness, but now such cigarettes are not officially produced. hello, this is bestack. i would like to order cigarettes. eh, please tell me, do you have rhodopes? right now i'm looking at the site, it seems there is a stewardess. well, i think that, probably,

placing an order for a block is as easy as shelling pears. the main thing at once buy. at least two blocks, we ask the courier to drive up to the very center of moscow in the area of ​​gogol boulevard, and at the indicated place a short man appears, wearing a black knitted hat, mustard-colored hats and jackets in his hands. he has a big bag. good afternoon. good afternoon. hello, i'm a russia tv channel. and we know that you sell cigarettes in bulk, true. well, i don't sell, i make you deliver. and you know what you deliver. what have you delivered now? this is a cigarette this is a rhodope cigarette. yes, what are they called? please tell me where are you from on the territory of the russian federation tobacco with excise stamps from kazakhstan, uh, hungary, belarus and other countries i have no idea and on camera. i just got caught on camera during our dialogue. you

said that you are a representative of a company you are engaged in sales, including wholesale , just the same to retail chains, small tents. on what basis are you doing this? the courier changed his name from one foot to the other. he realized that he was in an extremely unpleasant situation and thought how best and run away as soon as possible, what is his name. just earned brought. i am a delivery man. i just work as a courier. they called me and i came to pick it up. where did you get these cigarettes from the courier's warehouse, as it turned out, the name is alexander alimov . according to him, they buy at a large wholesale base and resell the smuggled cigarette deliverer did not find anything better than how to quickly and independently destroy the brought goods. look at the whole

urn you got these wrong ones cigarettes. you are now aware. what are you doing? of course, of course, yes, you are at least a little ashamed of it. all the more so, especially since especially since it's been a whole morning, of course, it's a shame for cigarettes from delivery in moscow to an illegal business, but popular, it seems, none of the buyers thinks, what exactly brings such poison distributors often the quality of these products does not correspond to any criteria blocks with logos of well-known brands are probably produced in a handicraft way and few. who knows that the law prohibits the purchase of cigarettes in online stores, such as alcohol. well , look, you can consider two brands - bt and dubaio, these brands should not be officially on sale in russia. that is, we immediately understand that we are talking about a fake. if we understand more specifically, then we see, for example, on this pack there is a

complete absence of excise duty. for example, here we see at least some kind of action, although it is fake.