347 boxes filled with smuggled cigarettesseized the police authorities on Saturday (17.05.2025) to Mykonos and Piraeus, even capturing the two Egyptians who transported them.
Everything happened at noon when during a check in the port of Mykonos, the 60 -year -old Egyptian to own 147 boxes of smuggled cigarettes With 10 packages of 20 cigarettes and 130 packages of 20 smuggled cigarettes, which did not have the legal tape of the excise duty.
Police officers in the preliminary investigation understood that There was another Egyptian on the same ship who also carried cigarettes.
In the afternoon, however, police were waiting for the 62 -year -old Egyptian in the Piraeuswho carried 200 boxes of cigarettes Contains 10 packages of 20 cigarettes each who again did not bring the legal excise duty.
The 62 -year -old was also arrested for violating Law 2960/2001 “on the National Customs Code” and transferred with the authorities to the Port Authority of Mykonos. A total of 72,000 cigarettes were seized, which are to be delivered to the Customs Office of Mykonos while the overall total of duties and taxes amounts to the amount of 21,499,368 euros.
Preliminary investigation is carried out by the Mykonos Port Authority.