In Aversa, a clandestine factory that produced electronic cigarettes was seized. The products, placed on the market, would have brought in around 300 thousand euros
The person responsible, a recipient of citizen's income, was reported to the judicial authorities.
The Green Berets of the Aversa Emergency Response Company, as part of the daily activity carried out by the Guardia di Finanza to verify compliance with the regulations on excise duties and to combat the smuggling of monopoly goods, discovered a completely illegal factory, where hundreds of liters of liquids for electronic cigarettes were produced every day.
The “vaping” products, lacking any control of origin suitable for tracing their provenance and in the absence of the necessary customs authorizations, were packaged in bottles and sold online to a large audience of consumers.
The manager of the illegal factory, located on one of the main arteries of the Norman town, was unable to provide the operating military with any justification regarding the possession of over 700 kilograms of inhalation liquids subject to excise duty, as well as over 3.000 packages of additives used to mix them. Similarly, no documentation was found regarding the origin of all the ingredients found by the financial police, nor of the liquid nicotine which, mixed with the so-called "neutral bases", constituted the finished product presented as inhalation liquid for "e-cigs", destined to be placed on the parallel market in total tax evasion.
To create the dangerous “do-it-yourself” mixes, the manager had at his disposal a series of suitable equipment for printing labels, packaging and shipping the finished products to customers found online.
The Finance Police sent some samples of the bottles found to the Chemical Analysis Laboratory of the Customs and Monopolies Agency of Naples, in order to determine their chemical composition and verify the presence of materials harmful to the health of consumers.
The Guardia di Finanza also requested the blackout of the website used by the person responsible to market the products, as it was found to lack the necessary authorizations and application of the strict rules that prohibit the online marketing of inhalation liquids.
At the end of the operations, RP, a forty-year-old originally from the province of Naples, also a recipient of citizen income, was reported to the Public Prosecutor's Office at the Court of Naples North for the crime of smuggling, while the products found were seized, together with the premises used as an illegal factory and the equipment used.
The seized liquids not subject to taxation, conventionally equated to contraband foreign manufactured tobacco, if placed on the market, would have generated over 300.000,00 euros.
Article published on March 5, 2021 - 11pm
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