World News | Attempt to Smuggling Millions Worth of Tobacco Thwarted
Get latest articles and stories on World at LatestLY. An attempt to smuggle tobacco into Israel in a quantity of over a ton, while evading tax payment in the amount of approximately 1.7 million Shekels (USD 476,000) was thwarted by Israeli tax authorities.
Tel Aviv [Israel], January 21 (ANI/TPS): An attempt to smuggle tobacco into Israel in a quantity of over a ton, while evading tax payment in the amount of approximately 1.7 million Shekels (USD 476,000) was thwarted by Israeli tax authorities.
The tobacco packages were hidden in a container that was declared to contain packages of noodles.
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The container was imported into Israel by a food importer named Uri Mashiach, a company that imported about 194 imports in the past year with a total value of about 18.5 million Shekels (USD 5.18 million). (ANI/TPS)
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