The Governor of the Transcarpathian region of Ukraine Gennady Moskal asks the renowned manufacturers of tobacco products, whose mission is in Ukraine, assistance in the battle against smuggling, is notified on its official.

"in the 1st turn we ask you to conduct laboratory studies of selected cigarettes on the subject of their identity and the place of production to specific factories in Ukraine or abroad. So it will be possible to find out the exact sources of contraband flows coming through our area, and to set the percentage of counterfeit products. Secondly, we ask you to build training our security forces guarding the border, to increase their skills. Thirdly, the expected assistance in the acquisition of equipment for the detection of smuggled cigarettes in road or railway transport ", - said Moskal.

As noted, the narrative is the most important thing about special scanners.

Moskal said that commissioners invites the world names of tobacco products, presented in Ukraine at a special meeting in Uzhgorod.

Ukrainian authorities said the battle against smuggling in the Transcarpathian region after the events in Mukacheve, where eleven July radicals "Right sector" came into confrontation With the police and local businesses: there was shooting from the grenade launcher and machine guns. According to the interior Ministry of Ukraine lost his life four people and 13 received damage to health. According to one version, the cause of the shooting in Mukachevo - the struggle for the supervision of the flow of contraband across the border With Hungary. With the same version, said the head of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko. The Governor of the Transcarpathian region said that customs officers and border guards of Ukraine, Hungary, Romania and Slovakia have agreed on General patrolling of the border to combat smuggling.

yesterday Moskal said that the Hungarian Military tied 19 customs officers on suspicion of facilitating the smuggling of cigarettes through the Hungarian-Ukrainian border.

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