BANJARMASIN - Banjarmasin Customs and Excise succeeded in dismantling the mode of smuggling illegal cigarettes through expeditions or freight forwarding services and packages.
"We have revealed this mode twice this month, namely 137,600 cigarettes and 35,000 cigarettes," said Head of the Banjarmasin Customs Office Edy Susetyo in Banjarmasin, as reported by Antara, Wednesday, November 30.
Even to trick the officers, he said, the address of the recipient was often fictitious or fake. So that the perpetrators will later take their own ordered items to the expedition company's office.
Edy said that from the two disclosures, his party managed to save the potential loss to the state of almost Rp. 200 million.
"We continue to explore other distribution modes so that efforts to circulate illegal cigarettes can continue to be suppressed and eradicated," he said.
The public is advised to provide information if they know of the circulation of illegal cigarettes without being equipped with fake excise or excise stamps.
Likewise, business actors, including retail traders in street stalls, should not sell illegal cigarettes as a form of support in eradicating criminal acts as stipulated in Law Number 39 of 2007 concerning Excise.
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