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The City Council Public Safety of the City of Lorca, Belén Pérez, has reported that members of the Local Units of Prevention and Operational Response Local Police Lorca proceeded to locate and intervene 1,135 packages of 50 grams of snuff rolling from smuggling and the identification of the perpetrator of this crime.

Perez explained that "within the preventive and operational actions carried out by the Local Police Lorca in Lorca council of La Hoya proceeded to the location and control of a car with English tuition, to detect police presence, tried to avoid it, checking that was driven by a man who had numerous police records, including smuggling of snuff. "

Conducted a visual inspection of the interior of the vehicle it was found in his back had camouflaged a hole from which a double bottom was accessed inside which carried a lot of packages of snuff.

Once could reach double bottom is found that these packages of a British trademark lacked a corresponding tax marking, the driver can not prove their provenance vehicle, so the snuff was apprehended by presuming that had been introduced illegally in Spain, not having paid the corresponding taxes.

Operated as snuff packages lacked the relevant regulatory precincts credited his lawful importation and payment of tax on manufactured Snuff, as set out in the Excise Act, the corresponding minutes of intervention and snuff was processed It was submitted to the Customs Surveillance Unit of the Tax Office in Murcia for the processing of the appropriate penalty for violation of the Contraband Act.

Also, the vehicle used in the commission of these facts has been made available to the same customs authority.

As for the value of gender apprehended, according to the official valid price list for the work of snuff in Expendidurías of Snuff and Timbre, the absence of a final assessment, it amounted to 10,420 euros.

With this important action is also to prevent and prosecute actions that might jeopardize public health resulting from the consumption of products other than those specific controls sanitation and hygiene and marketing through illegal channels, evading the payment of the tax confirmed, representing economic loss to society, varied and constant preventive work and operational Local Police Lorca develops through the various units in which and through monitoring devices established in the entire municipality is organized and its coordination with the rest of the Security Forces.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca