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Polish Border Guard officers in Tuplice seizes 1.9 tons of raw tobacco, worth almost a million zlotys.

The Border Guard officers detained a bus for inspection in the Żary poviat. It turned out that its driver, a 29-year-old Pole, was transporting illegal tobacco. The man was questioned. The Prosecutor of the District Prosecutor’s Office in Żary applied to him a financial surety in the amount of PLN 15 thousand. In addition, the 29-year-old was fined for failure to report the carriage of goods to the Electronic Transport Supervision System (SENT). For the committed crime, he is subject to a high fine and a penalty of up to 3 years imprisonment.