February 3, 2025
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42,000 packs of illegal cigarettes detained in Ponta Grossa/PR
The retention was valued at approximately R$284,000.
Tax analysts from the Surveillance and Repression Team (EVR) of the Federal Revenue Office in Ponta Grossa/PR acted on Thursday afternoon, the 30th, to detain a cargo containing 42,000 packs of illegal cigarettes in Ponta Grossa/PR.
During an inspection, officers searched the first semi-trailer of a bitrem truck, coming from the west of Paraná, and identified 84 boxes of the smuggled product on top of a legal load of soybeans. According to the driver, the boxes had been loaded in Cascavel/PR and would be taken to Curitiba for R$4,000.
The driver was taken to the Federal Police in Ponta Grossa and arrested for smuggling. The vehicles and the cargo of cigarettes (42,000 packets in total), valued at approximately R$ 284,000, were sent to the DRF/Ponta Grossa.
Source: Receita Federal
How Tax Analysts work in Brazil
As an essential activity for the protection of society and the State, the Tax Analysts of the Brazilian Federal Revenue Service who work in Customs form the front line in the routine fight against smuggling, embezzlement, currency evasion, international drug and arms trafficking and other cross-border crimes at land border crossings, airports and ports throughout the country.
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