Suspecting Expeditionary Trucks, Lanal Secures 101,600 Illegal Cigarette Packs At Labuan Bajo Port
The Labuan Bajo Naval Base Security Task Force (Lanal) thwarted the circulation of 1.62 million illegal cigarettes during operations at Multipurpose Port, Labuan Bajo, West Manggarai, East Nusa Tenggara (NTT), Wednesday, March 27 evening. Lanal Commander Labuan Bajo Marine Lt. Col. (P) Iwan Hendra Susilo said the millions of illegal cigarettes with a value of goods reaching Rp2.49 billion were within 101,600 packs packaged in 127 large boxes. "We got it after conducting an inspection of an expedition truck that carried out about 100 meters of the port gate," he said in Labuan Bajo, Thursday, March 28, which was confiscated by Antara. The action was based on intelligence and suspicion of a high-charge expedition truck arriving in Labuan Bajo using KM Dharma Rucitra VIII on the Surabaya-Lembar route of NTB-Labuan Bajo NTT-Ende NTT. To trick officers, he continued, hundreds of boxes containing illegal cigarettes were inserted among the boxes containing snacks. "In the examination, it was found that the alleged violation of the cigarette did not have excise according to the rules, it did not have a cigarette distributor's letter and an illegal road certificate because it was not listed as CV (determination of the commandditer) sender and receiver of the goods. "The cigarette per packaging should be 16 cigarettes, but the excise per pack is only for 12 sticks," he explained.