The Civil Guard has arrested two people for making cigarettes with illegal tobacco in a home in Busot (Alicante). At the home, the agents have found machinery for manufacturing and a large quantity of cigarettes prepared to be sent, mainly to Poland and Germany. The detainees face charges for the crimes of smuggling, against intellectual property, public finances and public health, falsification of documents and money laundering.
After receiving a report of a possible robbery in a home in an urbanization in Busot, the agents discovered an open window and inside, a huge amount of packages and machinery intended for the manufacture of cigarettes.
In the subsequent search, the agents found a total of 17 boxes with 202 kilograms of tobacco, 4,368 counterfeit tobacco packs, 3,640 boxes with tubes ready to be filled with tobacco and 307 grams of marijuana.
In addition, they have seized a machine for sealing tobacco packages and another valued at more than twelve thousand euros, designed to roll, tube and fill with the bite at a speed of up to 12,000 cigarettes per hour.
To carry out the smuggling, they manipulated the product using a counterfeit of a well-known tobacco brand. The resulting product was sent mainly to Poland and Germany.
The Investigative Court No. 2 of San Vicente is the designated body that handles the judicial case.
