Yesterday, the police cut off two routes of smuggling in operations in Rozaje and Nikšić, near the border with Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Police Administration (UP) announced today.
The announcement adds that in addition to the confiscated 142 packs of cigarettes of different brands, six people were arrested, and six motor vehicles that were used to commit crimes were temporarily confiscated.
"In this regard, in the building owned by BM from Rožaj, the police searched and confiscated 62 packs of cigarettes without excise stamps, coffee, various textile clothing, as well as four off-road motor vehicles, three of which without license plates, which, as suspicion, used to commit a criminal act," the announcement states.
BM was arrested on suspicion of having committed the criminal offense of illegal trade and brought to the competent state prosecutor.
"In the second operation, near the border with Bosnia and Herzegovina, two vehicles were controlled, a Mercedes ML and a VW Transporter van, in which 80 packs of cigarettes without excise stamps were found. The cigarettes and vehicles were confiscated," the statement reads.
The UP said that on this occasion, on suspicion of having committed the criminal offense of attempted smuggling, VD (25), VD (44), VN (56), MM (41) and VM (20) from Nikšić were arrested, while in in cooperation with the competent state prosecutor, they carry out further activities, among other things, the search of several locations on the territory of the municipality of Nikšić, as a check and determination of facts and circumstances in relation to possible connections with certain criminal acts from the previous period.
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