Romanian Gets Conditional Sentence for Transporting Illegal Cigarettes from Greece to Bulgaria 2026

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A Bulgarian court has given a Romanian national a conditioinal sentence of three years, with a five-year probation period, for illegally possessing 41,000 packs of cigarettes without excise revenue stamps, valued at EUR 157,030, the Sofia Appellate Prosecution Office said on Tuesday. The sentence was handed down under a court ruling that has the legal effect of a final conviction.
The man was charged after Bulgarian Border Police officers stopped the Romanian-registered truck he was driving at the inbound lane of the Kulata border crossing at the Greek-Bulgarian border on November 8. Among the goods being transported, which included quinces, officers found 41,000 packs of cigarettes of various brands. The pre-trial investigation was conducted by the Blagoevgrad Regional Prosecution Office.
A total of 39.4 million cigarettes were seized by Bulgarian customs officers in October 2026, the largest quantity recorded in the past ten years, the Customs Agency reported. The cigarettes seized in October accounted for 41% of the total amount confiscated in the first ten months of the year. The Agency attributed this to six cases, most of them in the area of the Kulata border crossing, in which millions of illegal cigarettes were discovered.

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