The Ukrainian man who was charged by the Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg County Prosecutor’s Office tried to smuggle almost one million packs of cigarettes into Hungary at the Záhony border crossing.
According to the announcement of the Prosecutor General’s Office, the Ukrainian driver applied for entry at the border crossing with a truck with a Slovenian license plate. According to the document accompanying the goods, the truck was supposed to transport a package of goods from Munkács to Nyíregyháza.
After the X-ray examination, the tax inspectors deemed the cargo suspicious, and therefore sent the vehicle for a secondary examination.
– The driver tried to ignore the new inspection, claiming that due to a technical fault in the truck, he could not reverse to the inspection location, however, the tax inspectors found smuggled, unstamped cigarettes hidden in the cargo hold of the trailer during the batch customs inspection – they informed, adding,
the defendant caused a financial loss of almost HUF 1.5 billion to the Hungarian budget.
The General Prosecutor’s Office accuses the man of the crime of budget fraud causing a particularly significant financial disadvantage, and if he confesses, he would be sentenced to six years in prison and expelled from the territory of Hungary for another six years.
Cover image: Illustration (MTI/Photo: György Varga)
Source: magyarnemzet.hu
