A fine customs operation… A former international sportsman was arrested in the Paris region by Customs who had been investigating for two months a network of smuggled tobacco imports. He is also a great champion of smuggling.
Ex-world champion of sambo (Russian combat sport) and ex-judoka of international level, this 35-year-old Moldovan was indicted on July 1 by a judge of the Interregional Jurisdiction of Paris, for smuggling cigarettes in an organized gang. Before being imprisoned.
•• He is suspected of having, between May and June 2022 in Île-de-France, participated in the delivery of several tens of tons of cartridges of counterfeit cigarettesaccording The Parisian.
It is in May that the investigators of the Judicial Customs collect information on this team of importers targeting the Paris region particularly affected by the sale on the sly. They place suspects under surveillance and identify cubicles and warehouses that serve as storage places. ” Several comings and goings were thus observed “Explains a source familiar with the matter.
•• Ce June 29, customs officers arrest the former sportsman in the Paris region when he comes to deliver goods at the wheel of a van. The forces of order get their hands on no less than 16 tons of cigarettes.
Shortly after, customs officers also arrested a woman, who was involved in trafficking in an Airbnb apartment. But a third accomplice managed to slip through the mesh of their net by leaving the scene the day before the operation. The smuggler was taken into custody in the Customs premises and, during his hearings, he confessed.
•• The criminal record of this professional sportsman is clean and it is even the first time that he has been arrested by the French police. This father of four children, who lives in Germany, explains that when he comes to France, he sleeps in the metro to limit the costs. And always according The Parisian, if he participates in these traffics, it would only be for the money because he is in a difficult financial situation. Obviously …
