Italian cigarette smuggler was caught

An Italian man tried to smuggle over 14 million forints worth cigarettes from Hungary, but was caught by finance guards at the Hungarian-Croatian border crossing at Letenye.

Joó Hilda, press officer of the National Tax and Customs Authority (NAV) told MTI on Friday that in the van of the Italian man about 13 thousand packs of cigarettes without Hungarian tax stamps were found. The Italian man said that he bought the cigarettes in Hungary, but he could not verify the origin of the products. (MTI)