From: DW
The 43-year-old truck driver is accused of evading 1.6 million euros of taxes. Cigarette smuggling is a profitable criminal enterprise in the EU, where prices for cigarettes are high and can vary widely
Police in the northern German city of Kiel said on Wednesday that they had detained a 43-year-old Russian man who is suspected of smuggling millions of black market cigarettes into the country.
“The officers caught a ‘big fish’ in their net,” said the police in a statement. Kiel, which lies on the Baltic sea, is home to Germany’s navy as well as a major shipbuilding center and a key European sea transport hub.
