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 thing.

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, it’s purely yours, though the 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, as usual, there are 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. it 's a real paradise for a pack smoker multi-colored all in cellophane, the price of many stamps is less than 50 rubles. for example, jean link is yellow 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, 55 cigarettes income. this is obvious.

there are no counterfeit cigarettes. in general, there are no shops anywhere, except for this 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 where did you get cigarettes 48 rubles. here, what are these cigarettes in kaliningrad, we see such people for the first time, what kind of company is this, where did you come from ? tell me, please, you, i you trade in absolutely counterfeit cigarettes, and you also traded at retail to sit. sit down, 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 duty, and we have almost no doubts that counterfeit goods are being sold in this trade pavilion. 48 rub. what cigarettes is absolutely singed left. uh, a tobacco product that can't possibly be in the fund, even on the pricing policy, that is, obviously a fake excise womb. this is a well-known brand under which exactly the same all sorts of cigarettes are counterfeited, the princes of which do not exist exactly the same cigarettes with a visera, which is absolutely incomprehensible. what is it, that is, there is clearly a contract, right? well , of course, dakota 55 rubles. according to the seller, there were no documents in the tent. all papers are kept by the director, who must

is about to drive up, and we continue to study the curiosities of the brand of cigarettes. sash you know that the cigarette operator is the first to contact such cigarettes. here, people with a variety even approach the choice of what they will simply glue on paper and blue assets is an absolutely economic crime, and forgery of excise stamps, it is equated separately to great manism. 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 the queue stood.

the seller was silent all the time while we were exploring the range of snuff boxes, 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. and here you are waiting on the street . and let's not tell us where you are. and give me a room, fuck it. give us a call already. we called along. wait. no, we'll wait here, 'cause 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 who is this? you're filming here. i'm alexei, what's your name, alexei, please, why should i have my own place of work? goodbye,

meanwhile, the law enforcement officers slowly continued to inspect the scene of the incident, drew up a protocol, interviewed the sellers and seized samples of goods in order to to understand the further 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, on which there was no obligatory qr-code marking at the moment. uh, this product has been seized. this fact is currently under investigation. e 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 took counterfeit cigarettes. 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, we turned to the local head with these questions. over the past few years, we have suspended the activities of four enterprises that produced unlabeled tobacco products these enterprises were, uh, legal, but in addition, they produced exactly unlabeled products, which were later intended for the supply of

eu countries which were located on the outskirts of the fishing village, which is in the guryev district, however, in the repair area in a large metal hangar of repair tools there were no 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? and what is this 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 came both from the territory of the republic of belarus and from the territory of neighboring countries in the former soviet republics, e products are not labeled and, accordingly, are 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 came, indeed, like the countries of the european union , so, uh, they dispersed 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 truck loaded. yes, with these boxes, yes, and at the very end, and wagons, yes, at 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 property, their detention is a matter of the near future, and then it will be possible to specifically say how and from where such a voluminous shipment of illegal cigarettes. and what tricks do smugglers use during the pandemic to deliver illegal cargo to the kaliningrad region? we are approaching 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. vanya, you are not a smuggler, and who are you and they earn a living, hid cigarettes yet. your car. what are you doing with lithuania at the automobile checkpoint in the village of chernyshevskoye, a lot of drivers draw up documents, and customs officers carefully examine the cargo. you inspect each car or you have some restrictions not inspected at the moment the principle of selective customs control

is used and the risk management system is used. based on this, if there are certain criteria , a decision is made to conduct a customs inspection. customs officers do not hide first of all they pay attention to those trucks and vans in which there are a lot of items goods. in this case, it is much easier for a smuggler to disguise illegal cargo and cigarettes are no exception. taking into account recent events of restrictions. uh, 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. and the cases were considered. uh, seven thousand. uh, packs were confiscated for 650,000 rubles. at the checkpoint

in the village of chernyshevskoye, customs officers specially trained dogs work day and night together with officers. 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 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. well, what do you see inside this form 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 victories. 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 more frequent there to hide cigarettes cigarettes, well, in the car, please, here the driver lives with us. 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, here 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. the attackers tried to smuggle a large batch of cigarettes under the guise of a cutting board to the baltic states. there are in fact , we look, we see two identical boards on weight absolutely, coinciding with the original, which the smugglers came up with, expecting that it was possible

for the bodies to not work on new year's holidays on january 4, they attempted to export trucks with boards to estonia i officially declare that timber weighing 19 tons is being exported. there were about 7,000 of these cigarette boards on the seven flights. 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 here no charge could be brought against him by the carpenter. 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 of the novosibirsk and samara regions, the trucks were full of counterfeit cigarettes, while the invoices, as a rule,

began to contain food. this is the astrakhan region 19 t 800 kg. he was bring to town moscow, which we see here, according to preliminary data, the flow of cigarette smuggling entered russia through the checkpoints of the astrakhan customs. this means that the investigators will obviously have questions to the head of the department, major general eldaro, who was arrested a month ago, saida. true, in a different way to the criminal case on abuse of power, allegedly saidov gave an illegal order to leave the arrested ship for iran.

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the topic of tobacco is especially important for the federal customs service. the fact is that the representatives of this department are entrusted with the duty to fight not only smuggled, but counterfeit cigarettes. thus, several underground factories. at one of the warehouses in the moscow region in the moscow region, a vehicle was found transporting cigarettes without accent marks, in the future, the route for these vehicles, which came from the moscow region, and from the rostov region, was established for the lady. we

were able to identify the production where these cigarettes were produced. it was a marlboro, it was an old rotopia bt tu-154 cigarette at this stage. e, was found to produce approximately 700,000 packs of cigarettes, two high-tech lines of chinese production, which allowed a minute to produce 200 packs. 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 full-fledged production. it was located in the ryazan region , finished products moved to the transit a warehouse owned by group members from this warehouse further in transit, that they will also become the moscow region. we found out that illegal cigarettes can be smuggled or counterfeited, the first clever dealers are trying to illegally smuggle this phenomenon across the border, representatives of the federal customs

service are called upon to fight this phenomenon. without excise products? especially not much labeled products are sold in million-plus cities, and moscow is also the capital in this sense. here you can stock up on cheap fakes not only in the store, but illegal online trading is also flourishing along with social activists. we conduct a journalistic experiment, we find on the internet a company that offers the so-called bulgarian cigarettes, rhodopi, tu-134 and a flight attendant. these brands are remembered, the smokers of the soviet times valued bulgarian tobacco for its good quality and cheapness, but now

such cigarettes are not officially produced. hello, this is the bestbag. 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 ​​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 tv channel russia and we know that you you sell cigarettes in bulk, truth well, i don't sell, i deliver. and you know what you deliver. what have you delivered now? that is,

this is a cigarette. this is a rhodope cigarette. yes, what are they called? tell me, please, where do you get tobacco on the territory of the russian federation with excise stamps from kazakhstan, uh, hungary, belarus and other countries i have no idea on camera. i just got caught on camera during our dialogue. you said that you are representatives of a company you are engaged in sales, including wholesale sales, just the same to retail chains to small tents. on what basis are you doing this, the courier was renamed from foot to foot, did he feed something that was not separate members, he realized that he was in an extremely unpleasant situation and thought about how best to run away as soon as possible. what is your name? just earned brought. i got it. i just work as a courier. they called me and i came to pick it up. where did you get those cigarettes from the courier warehouse? as it turned out?