Long An: Cigarette smuggling increasing

VCN- Since the beginning of this year, cigarette smuggling has tended to increase with a serious violation level in the Long Anprovince.
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Convoys of smuggled cigarettes on road ĐT 281 in the area of Tan My commune, DucHoa district. Photo: Nguyen Hue.

According to information from bases, transportation activities of smuggled cigarettes still takesplace commonly at fixed times of the day in border areas Đuc Hue, KienTuong, and DucHoa district. Especially in hot spots like DucHoa, transportation activities of smuggled cigarettes takeplace regularlythroughout the day, especially from 9 am to 13 pm.

On road DT 281 in the direction of LocGiang and HauNghia, from morning to afternoon, one can hear the roaring engines of the smuggled cigarette cars constantly. In the area of Cay Xoaiand LocGiang wharf in Tan My and LocGiang commune, DucHoa district, armies of people including women are hired to carry cigarettes, quantities of each transportation areup to several thousand packets of cigarettes.

The smuggled cigarettes from Duc Hue Border aretransported by speedboats on the Vam Co Dong River to gather here and split to be carried by motorcycle towards road DT 821 and gather at the Bo Kho T- junction to wait for transshipment to Cu Chi, Hochiminh city. It is noted that previously, perpetratorsoften carried small quantities, just a small bag of about 300-400 packets of cigarettesput in front of vehicles each time, now, cigarettes areput in two sacks behind vehicles, each sack carries about 60 cigarette cartons(about 1,200 cigarette packs)..

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Each time, people were hired to carry around 120 cigarette cartons, about 1,200 cigarette packs/a trip. Photo: Nguyen Hue.

According to Steering Committee 389 of Long An province, the situation of cigarette transporting has beencomplicated in the provincial area since the beginning of this year.

Behaviors and tricks have become more sophisticated increasingly, the scale and violation levels have becomeserious, perpetratorshave not only transported small quantities during the day, but also arranged to transportcontraband cigarettes at night, with tens of thousands of cigarette packs concentrated mainly in the border area of Duc Hue, DucHoa district, and ThanhHoa district. Faced with the heat of the contraband cigarettes in Long An, recently, the anti-smuggling forces of the Ministry of Public Security has also taken steps in many large projects aimed atthe professional smuggling lines and gangs which concentrate in border areas of Duc Hue, DucHoa district. Most recently, at 11 pm on September 12th,2016 on road DT 821, of LocGiang commune, DucHoa district, the Anti-Smuggling Bureau (C74) - Ministry of Public Security coordinated with the Economic Police Team – the Police of DucHoa district, Long An provinceand caught a truck transporting contraband cigarettes for consumptionin Ho Chi Minh city. Inspecting the truck, functional forces discovered nearly 50,000 packs of smuggled cigarettes, including 39,000 Jet brand cigarette packs, 9,000 Hero brand cigarette packs, and some other brands such as: 555, Esse Lights. Now, these incidentsarebeing investigated by the police office.

Earlier, on August 14th,2016 according to reports, the mobile Management Team of Long An market Management Branch have lay in ambush to arrest a car carrying 13,000 foreign cigarette packs at ThuanHoa commune, ThanhHoa district, Long An province. Earlier, on July 22rd 2016 anti-smuggling forces of Duc Hue District Police also seized a shipment of foreign cigarettes in My QuyTay commune, collected 22,550 packs of cigarettes; on July 20th, the anti-smuggling forces of DucHoa District Police seized a car carrying 48,000 packets of foreign cigarettes in HiepHoa commune, DucHoa district.

Faced with growing cigarette smuggling, Steering Committee 389 of Long An province said that functional forces in the province have made great efforts in anti-smuggling, seized a lot of smuggled cigarettes with large quantities focused mainly in the border area of Duc Hue and DucHoa district. In the first 8 months of 2016, functional forces in Long An province confiscatedmore than 1.6 million packs of smuggled foreign cigarettes.

In order to further strengthen anti-smuggling in general, and cigarette anti-smuggling in particular, Steering Committee 389 of Long An province always required the functional forces in the province to strengthen the professional investigation work, detect and process smuggling, catch the activities of lines, dens, instigators and leaders in a number of key areas such as Duc Hue district, DucHoa district, and KienTuong county town… In which, cigarettes are considered to be one of the key smuggling items.

Concerning cigarette anti-smuggling, the Long An Customs Department said that since the beginning of this year, the unit has intensified patrolling and controlling at trails, crossings, and two backstage sides of the border in the area of Customs control, at the same time, enhanced coordination between functional units and forces in the province, thereby, confiscatinga lot of smuggled cigarettes being transportedacross the border.

Only in August, Customs control forces and the Border Gate Customs Sub-Department of Long An Customs Department discovered and arrested 3 cigarettesmuggling cases across the borderand seized 2,300 packs of cigarettes of all kinds.

By Nguyen Hue/ Binh Minh

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