Beauvais. Customs enter 141 kg of smuggling tobacco in a bar

An operation of customs had been reported in the neighborhood Saint-Lucien de BeauvaisThursday, February 6. The administration has just communicated on the quantities of tobacco and money seized. Because it is the resale of tobacco of smuggling which was targeted.

The Snack bar was targeted in the Saint-Lucien district. An establishment which had already been the subject of an administrative closure in 2024 for the resale of cigarette acquired outside the legal framework for the distribution of tobacco in France. But this first action did not serve a lesson. “”Alas, this first warning stroke did not have the expected effectregrets customs management. The customs officials of the Nogent-sur-Oise brigade and the Compiègne customs office suspecting the operators of the drink debit to continue their traffic.»»

A major operation to end traffic

Then the customs services collaborated with the gendarmerie and the municipal and national police to carry out a joint operation this Thursday, February 6. They had the authorization of justice to conduct their investigations further. Helped by masters dogs, “They rushed to the commercial, domicile and vehicle premises of exhibitors».

This advanced research made it possible to find much more than the first time. In a minivan which was to serve as buffer storage, the investigators found 248 tobacco packages (almost five kilos). The bulk of the stock was stored in a technical room adjoining the bar. “”Where 683 cigarette cartridges were stored (136 kilos of tobacco).»»

€ 18,000 in cash

Quantities which move away from simple resale under the mantle and which approach organized traffic. In addition to the goods, customs officials found € 18,000 in cash. In all, “The 141 kg of tobacco worth on the legal resale market of more than € 92,000 was immediately seized, such as the liquid money which was retained by customs“, Communicates the administration.

“”The infractors incur a prison sentence of three years, the confiscation of the sums selected and a solidarity fine of between once or twice the value of the object of fraud, that is to say between € 92,528 and € 185,056Complete customs. The prefecture, for its part, has not specified, for the moment, a possible administrative closure.