large parties of the left cigarettes get to russia. which regions of the country have the most counterfeit tobacco and why in the center of moscow they openly sell poison we climbed into this case and conducted our own investigation. the counters of russian shops are littered with illegal cigarettes, fakes and contraband,

every tenth pack is sold illegally. and it is not surprising that the cost of tobacco products is growing every year, and burnt taurus offer to purchase their goods at two or even three times cheaper than the real one. to better understand the problem and try find 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, it's pure harry. it's true that your accent was different. we were interested in the ways in which russian cigarettes got to european countries. the central market of the city of kaliningrad sells tobacco here, and fake ones at that. now we will go into the central part of this market, on the right side here, as usually, clothes shoes. sundresses, how business is going well. 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 packs of cigarettes, all multi-colored cellophane, the price of many brands is less than 50 rubles. for example, yellow gilling with the image of a ram with horns, the pack is very similar to the popular american cigarettes, the locals call them kaliningrad aries and 48 cigarettes, 48 ​​cigarettes please counterfeit cigarettes of which no in general, there are no shops anywhere, except for the tent, we call the police and go to get acquainted with the seller. and you're just a salesperson. yes, what is your name?

the man behind the counter was confused and couldn't really explain anything. tell us where you get cigarettes 48 rubles. that's what it is, in general, where do we see such cigarettes in kaliningrad for the first time, what kind of company is this? where did you get such a you? tell me, please, i sell absolutely counterfeit cigarettes, and they still sell at retail. that is, even rush. let the cigarettes by cigarettes you have samplers. yes, they are. here are the probes, that is, one piece at a time. yes, you are trading, the seller failed to explain the prices for a pack of cigarettes, which are so 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.

cigarettes. this is absolutely scorched left uh tobacco products, which can not be in the background even according to the pricing policy, that is, clearly fake excise wombs. this is a well-known brand, for which all sorts of cigarettes are exactly the same, princes which do not exist exactly the same visiroi cigarettes, which are also absolutely incomprehensible. what is it. that is clearly a counterfeit, 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're a cigarette operator asking. no, no, this is the first time i see such cigarettes. here people with a variety

even approach the choice of what they will simply glue on paper and blue excises interest-economic crime, and forgery of excise stamps, it is equated separately with false monic. you know, yes, that this is a criminal liability. this is not cigarettes, the state bears the losses. from such cigarettes, in short, billions of rubles, of course, firstly, this is a direct theft on taxes. secondly, this is absolutely a baiting of ordinary people who can not afford any cigarettes, except for these cheap plastic tobacco-free cigarettes. as such. well, and accordingly, we came the turn stood. all the time 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. hands please hands, remove your hands, leave the premises. who are you, the

senior corpse seller. maxim further seller 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. here you go you wait outside. come on, you won't tell us . where are you. come on, you got me in the room on the already us room. we called along. wait. no, we'll wait here because we 're at a crime scene. while there was a word. and the stick arrived police 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 lives here, people are generally decent journalists. and people, what are you shooting like this, here i am alexey, what's your name alexey please, why should i have my own place of work? goodbye, meanwhile, the 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 the territory of which the market is located. partially inspected, uh, these products were installed cigarettes that did not have a mandatory current point in time marking qr code. this product has been withdrawn. this fact is currently under investigation. in order to establish the legitimacy of the presence of these products in circulation and a social decision will be made on the central market of kaliningrad , counterfeit cigarettes were taken. those who uncontrollably supply poison from abroad, it seems that it is impossible for a private car to pass through the

border crossing while multi- ton trucks are prohibited due to the pandemic. carefully inspect, and illegal production in the region. through the efforts of the ministry of internal affairs defeated with these questions we turned to the 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 from the fact that the operatives decided to check the auto repair shop for trucks that were

on the outskirts of the village of fish, 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. mainly 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 rybnoe. where are we? what is it for such a realm of cigarettes? this is truly the realm of cigarette cigarettes. here e more than 100 million rubles. and the total number exceeds 2 million. packs of products arrived, 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. as i understand it

, the territory of the kaliningrad region, maybe even somewhere abroad. she was leaving. yes, these cigarettes went somewhere, these products acted, indeed, like the countries of the european union, so it diverged on the territory of the kaliningrad region. uh, you can pay attention in this uh, the warehouse is located, let's say. uh, the so-called cover item. well, that is, the truck was loaded. yes , these boxes, yes, sheep and the end of something and trucks. yes , in the end, these clothes were thrown. yes second-hand second-hand, uh, which just appeared in fact. cover goods, 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 they have already tracked down the owners of this good, 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. a whole box crawls into such a small machine trying to hide cigarettes. bath you are a smuggler no, and who are you, i'm not a process, earn a living hid cigarettes yet.

your car. what are you doing, we are driving towards the border with lithuania at the automobile checkpoint in the village of chernyshevskoye fur, a lot of the driver draws up documents, and the 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 real 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 to conduct customs inspections in the first place and pay attention to those trucks and vans in which there are a lot of goods. in this case, it is much

easier for smugglers to disguise illegal cargo and cigarettes are no exception. taking into account e recent events of restrictions due to the spread of coronavirus infection, e has significantly decreased, the level of offenses related to the movement of tobacco products volumes in 2020. uh, about 9,000 packs were seized in the amount of 780,000 rubles. and the cases were considered, uh, seven thousand, and packs were 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. on 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 the image of the cargo, nothing can be concealed. 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 pallets, yes,

28 falls under this. 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 ca n't put into words. and there are some places they usually manage to hide cigarettes there, but in the car, please, here we love the driver. 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 electronics or aquariums work at the checkpoints of the most different parts of our country and help to find hidden illegal cargo. here is one of the latest

examples in the leningrad region. the attackers tried to smuggle a large batch of cigarettes under the guise of a cutting board to the baltic countries. in fact, we see two identical boards in weight absolutely identical to the original. what the smugglers came up with, expecting that the customs authorities do 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 it is being withdrawn timber weighing 19 tons on seven pallets, there were about 7,000 such boards. yes,

you counted 20 packs of cigarettes on each board. well, we see that even here, one hook fell out. you see, here we also see that 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. april

2021 during a joint operation, operatives 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, overhead, as a rule, food products began in the astrakhan region. the total weight of the nineteenth 800 kg was supposed to bring to the city of moscow what do we see here here? please come closer, according to preliminary data, the flow of

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the topic of tobacco is especially important for the federal customs service. the fact is that representatives of this department are entrusted with the duty to fight against only with smuggled, but counterfeit cigarettes. so several underground factories were liquidated. in one of the warehouses in the

moscow region in the moscow region, a vehicle was identified that transported cigarettes without excise stamps. later, we established the route for these vehicles that came to the moscow region, and from the rostov region. we were able to identify the production where these cigarettes were produced. it was marlboro, it was the cigarettes of the old rototop tu-154 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 also have something to boast about. among the most significant special events, the defeat of an illegal cigarette factory in the ryazan region of specialists in the production process is not only laborers, but it is really who was involved in setting up the launch of this and production technology. that is, it was a complete production. it was 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, which they still stand in the moscow region. we

found out that illegal cigarettes can be smuggled or counterfeited the first clever dealers are trying to illegally smuggle across the border with this phenomenon, representatives of the federal customs service are called upon to fight. is there such a quantity on the shelves of our stores without excise products? especially a lot of non -labeled products are sold in million-plus cities, and moscow is also the capital in this sense. you can stock up on cheap fakes here, not only in the store,

illegal online trade also flourishes. together with social activists, we conduct a journalistic experiment, we find a company on the internet that offers the so-called bulgarian cigarettes, rhodopi, tu-134 and a flight attendant. these brands are remembered, smokers from the soviet times, bulgarian tobacco appreciated for good quality and cheapness, but now such cigarettes are not officially produced. 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 is to buy immediately. at least two blocks, we ask the courier to drive up to the very

center of moscow in the area of ​​gogolevsky boulevard, and in the indicated place a short man appears, wearing a black knitted hat, mustard-colored hats and jackets in hand. he has a big bag. good afternoon. good afternoon. hello this is the russia channel and we know that you sell cigarettes in bulk, true well, i don’t sell, i deliver, you deliver, and you know what you deliver. what have you delivered now? i don’t know, roddope, these are comrades, this is a radope cigarette. yes, what are they called? tell me, please, where did you get tobacco on the territory of the russian federation with excise stamps from kazakhstan , uh, hungary, belarus and other foreign countries , i just have no idea in our dialogue was recorded on the camera was recorded. 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

? he realized that he was in an extremely unpleasant situation and thought about how best to run away as soon as possible, what is his name. i am a delivery man. i just work as a courier. they called me, i came to pick up these cigarettes from the courier's warehouse, as it turned out his 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 cigarettes. you are now aware. what are you doing? of course, yes, you are at least a little ashamed of those.