ANAF launches special operation to fight cigarettes’ smuggling in Romania

Newsroom 08/02/2017 | 12:17

The National Agency for Fiscal Administration (ANAF) announced on Tuesday that it launched the „Shield” operation on February 5, aiming to eliminate the cigarettes smuggling at Romania’s borders with the states outside the European Union.

“Starting February 5, the border controls intensified in the traffic, markets, and fairs to eliminate the cigarettes smuggling. The main control methods, beside the intensification of border controls, will be the dogs packs controls and the mobile teams controls of the General Customs Office from ANAF,  reactivated in January 2017,” according to an ANAF release.

The entitities that will take part in the operation are the General Customs Office, the General Anti-Fiscal Fraud Office and the General Office of Border Police.

At the end of „Shield operation 2017”, ANAF will publish the results.

The cigarettes black market registered an average level of 16.8 percent of the overall market in 2016, a growth compared with 16 percent level from 2015 taking into account that almost half of the market is illegal in the North-East region of Romania.

The percent from 2016 is the highest average annual level from 2011 until now, and in 2010 the level was 27.4 percent , according to a study published by the research company Novel Research and financed by the companies from tobacco industry.

In 2016, the state lost around EUR 672 million due to cigarettes smuggling, show the official estimations.

Georgiana Bendre

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