Gorontalo Port Area Police Seize 1,768 Illegal Cigarette Packs Brought By Prospective Passengers

Police show illegal cigarettes or no excise tape in Gorontalo City. BETWEEN/HO-KPG Police

JAKARTA - Personnel from the Gorontalo Port Area (KPG) confiscated 1,768 illegal cigarettes without excise stamps at Pelindo Gorontalo Port, Gorontalo City, Gorontalo Province. KPG Police Chief Ipda Reza Reyzaldy said cigarettes without excise stamps were found during the inspection of luggage belonging to prospective KM passengers. The Nusantara Belt 102 which will depart at Pelindo Gorontalo Port. "From the results of the examination, KPG Police personnel found four boxes containing 1,768 packs of cigarettes without excise stamps," said Ipda Reza in Gorontalo, Antara, Sunday, February 11. Cigarettes without excise stamps were brought by a passenger with the initials F. According to F's confession, he was asked by his brother with the initials FM to take the cigarette to Pelindo Gorontalo Port for the purpose of shipping Malenge, Central Sulawesi. Meanwhile, according to FM as the owner of the goods, the thousand packs of unbanded cigarettes were purchased from someone he did not know and would be resold in the Central Sulawesi region. "Both of them have been taken to the Gorontalo Port Area Police and then handed over to the Gorontalo City Police Satreskrim for further investigation and investigation," concluded Ipda Reza. Gorontalo City Police Chief Kombes Ade Permana appealed to the people of Gorontalo City not to sell, consume and buy cigarettes without excise stamps.

Ade Permana is committed to continuing to strive to protect the people of Gorontalo City from the negative impact of the consumption of excisable goods and will continue to take steps to prevent the circulation of illegal excisable goods that are dangerous and detrimental to the state.