{"id":10218,"date":"2026-06-11T16:15:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T13:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=10218"},"modified":"2026-06-11T16:15:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T13:15:00","slug":"aade-5-6-million-contraband-cigarettes-seized-at-the-kipoi-customs-office-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=10218","title":{"rendered":"AADE: 5.6 million contraband cigarettes seized at the Kipoi customs office (video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another significant success in the fight against <b>smuggling <\/b>of tobacco products was recorded by inspectors from the <b>Independent Authority for Public Revenue,<\/b> by preventing the distribution of a large quantity of<b> contraband cigarettes<\/b> into the European market.<\/p>\n<p>Specifically, inspectors from<b> the Kipoi Customs Office, <\/b>after analyzing and acting on intelligence, stopped a <b>truck truck<\/b>, originating from <b>Turkey <\/b>and bound for <b>France<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>Inspectors discovered<b> 280 cartons of contraband cigarettes,<\/b> hidden inside the <b>cargo bed <\/b>of the truck. To mislead the authorities, the <b>driver <\/b>had employed the <b>tapa method<\/b>, using pallets and boxes of legal goods (tiles, plates, and coffee cups) in the back and on the sides of the truck bed to conceal the <b>illegal cargo inside.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>During the inspection, 5,627,600 contraband cigarettes were found and seized,<\/b> with estimated taxes and duties exceeding<b> 1.15 million euros.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The <b>driver <\/b>of the truck <b>was arrested <\/b>immediately and is being held pending referral to the prosecutor.<\/p>\n<p>Investigations are ongoing, as inspectors believe the cargo may be linked to other cases.<\/p>\n<div class=\"oembed_media\" data-embed-provider=\"YouTube\">\n<div class=\"dp-youtube-video dp-embed-video\" data-embed=\"ctwAkJOqJzc\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ctwAkJOqJzc?feature=oembed\">\n<div class=\"play-button\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inspectors from the Independent Authority for Public Revenue have scored yet another significant victory in the fight against tobacco smuggling, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-greece"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}