According to a recent report by Epravda, Ukrainian police discovered an underground tobacco factory in the Cherkasi region. The factory was hidden in an abandoned military base. The highly industrialized tobacco production line and facilities specializing in drying and packaging tobacco made this factory Production efficiency in underground factories is extremely high.
In order to conceal the crime, the founder of this factory not only used a diesel power station to ensure power supply and avoid leaving suspicious traces on the power grid, but also installed a monitoring system around the factory to detect it in time and conceal it from police searches. The factory has a production capacity of 50,000 packs of cigarettes per day, and more than 150,000 packs of cigarettes have been accumulated in the warehouse.
Police confirmed the factory's existence at the beginning of the year and shut it down completely. It is reported that the value of the equipment and products seized in the factory reached 20 million hryvnia ($530,000).
At the same time, the police also discovered that most of the products from this underground factory flowed to the markets of Cherkasi, Kiev and Vinnytsia districts through wholesale and retail, and were sold as products of other tobacco manufacturers.
Currently, the Ukrainian police have launched a criminal investigation into the illegal manufacturing, storage, sale and transportation of counterfeit stamp duty goods in accordance with local criminal law, and have begun collecting evidence in order to bring the organizers and participants of this underground black market to justice .
