Russian Police Destroyed An Underground Factory: 400,000 Tobacco Products And 10,000 Illegal E-cigarettes Seized

Russian police destroyed an underground factory: 400,000 tobacco products and 10,000 illegal e-cigarettes seized

Russian authorities destroyed an underground factory that produced counterfeit alcohol and seized about 50 tons of illegal alcohol, 406,000 tobacco products, more than 10,000 e-cigarettes and 50,000 milliliters of e-cigarette oil.

According to the St. Petersburg Evening News on November 24, the General Internal Affairs Bureau of the St. Petersburg and Leningrad Oblasts of the Russian Federation destroyed an underground factory that produced counterfeit alcohol, and seized a total of about 50 tons of illegal alcohol, 406,000 tobacco products, more than 10,000 e-cigarettes and 50,000 milliliters of e-cigarette oil.

Law enforcement officers destroyed an underground workshop in Vsevolozhsk that specializes in the production of counterfeit alcohol, as well as a warehouse for storing alcoholic products in the Krasnogvardeisky district, and confiscated a total of about 47,800 liters of illegal alcohol, more than 406,000 cigarettes, 10,800 e-cigarette devices, and about 50 liters of e-cigarette oil.

A total of 45 criminal cases were filed in this operation, and 52 reports of administrative violations were issued.