Downtown Athens shop raided for selling illegal tobacco products

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A 58-year-old antheral has been arrested for selling contraband physics tobacco products and authorities seized much than €200,000 successful currency during a raid connected a downtown Athens business.

According to a constabulary announcement connected Tuesday, the apprehension took spot past week successful the cardinal Omonia district, pursuing an probe into a concern that was suspected of violating Greece’s customs codification and laundering the proceeds of transgression activity.

The suspect was detained aft investigators were capable to corroborate that illicit income were being conducted via the store. A hunt of the premises uncovered 190 physics cigaret devices, €237,435 successful currency and a money-counting machine.

The scope of his alleged activities and immoderate imaginable connections to wider transgression networks are being investigated.